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I think, (and I'm being presumptuous here), everyone knows there are no true 'bins', and that people are complicated, and every characteristic is from in a cont
by okamiueru 14y ago
I think, (and I'm being presumptuous here), everyone knows there are no true 'bins', and that people are complicated, and every characteristic is from in a continuous metric, and there is no good or bad.
I also think that this is why bins are used. It's not an attempt at correctly describing people, but rather a simplification, using general terms in order to communicate the traits in a, best-effort, meaningful way.
I could never adequately describe how I _truly_ am as a person. All I can do is draw on gross simplifications that you yourself can translate to a meaningful metric based on your own experience.
- StavrosK 14y agoSure, that makes sense, I'm just of the opinion that scales describe people a bit more accurately than bins, e.g. the Kinsey scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale I think you're right, though, most people probably use it as a sort of description rather than a hard categorization.
- JonnieCache 14y agoPeople have a massive incentive to put themselves in bins: it gives them the opportunity to hate on the people in the other bin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups