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Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam. The funniest part of the article was how Forbes lists th
by wwilim 5y ago
Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam.
The funniest part of the article was how Forbes lists this as a top ten must-read. And why wouldn't it, removing all nuance and operating on big words invented by an "expert" is peak C-level thinking.
Finally, I feel obliged to point out that the four types described are essentially the Houses of Hogwarts with the colors switched around.
- dmingod666 5y agoBig 5 boils down to 5 words, not a scam..
- dathinab 5y agoBit 5 doesn't try to explain behaviour, but only classifies statistical differences in test results. It also boils down to a 5-dimensional vector not 5 categories of people. If we see each dimension in just 10 bins then that's still 100000 different categories.
- capableweb 5y ago> Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam. Well, is it? Is it not be definition "abstraction" rather than "scam"? A scam would involve to purposefully obfuscate the truth or outright lying. Creating simpler rules around something difficult in order to explain a lot is how a lot of science progresses. Wasn't that what Newton/Einstein or someone else did regarding physics, in order to explain how things work in our universe? Before that we had lots of difficult rules and exceptions, while they come up with something clean that could explain a lot of things instead.
- giraffe_lady 5y agoRight exactly. You could describe the bohr model of the atom as "boiling an entire branch of science down to something this simple" but it is still a useful tool in some contexts. Even if you want to argue that it is worthless and never useful for anything, it is still not a scam.