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> This survey also lacks any kind of reference: the meaning of "respect" for a man in super-machismo El Salvador is going to be completely different from a woma
by OJFord 2y ago
> This survey also lacks any kind of reference: the meaning of "respect" for a man in super-machismo El Salvador is going to be completely different from a woman in Buddhist Viet Nam.
But it doesn't matter / that is entirely appropriate, because it's about emotion, i.e. how they feel (which is partly a function of culture etc. yes) not some sort of objective 'how sad should you be according to the standard' metric.
- card_zero 2y agoOK, but does that matter? And what breed of dog are they? Perhaps there's correlation.
- mdp2021 2y agoYes, whether a society contains high or low amounts of desirable or undesirable phenomena, and what could possibly determine that, is of very high importance.
- card_zero 2y agoThese disparate, completely subjective things are not phenomena.
- OJFord 2y agoBut emotions are 'completely subjective things' so it's not that you want them to normalise to SI emotional units, but rather that you don't want this survey to be done at all?
- mdp2021 2y agoOh, they do not appear? At the bottom of the scales is Afghanistan, guess whether there may be objective reasons for the aggregate scalars (and whether their referent could be palpable - phenomenic).