butchersapron
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Do you know what 'infer' means?
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
talk about a default setting...
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
faux pas , can you just say what your point is please ?
God, give this guy a brain!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
How would you or I know how they might conceive it?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
How do you know anything about what people tend to do?
Maybe you could infer something about it?
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
I don't agree, I think it's cute.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I can't. I can suppose, I can assume, I can extrapolate from prior knowledge, but actually knowing is usually a hindsight thing, where your suppositions, extrapolations and assumptions are, to a greater or lesser degree, confirmed.
Human relations aren't like physics, there are no "laws" of behaviour that extend beyond "extremely general but not universally applicable". Even tendencies may be specific to context.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Practically, that's all you can do.
What tendencies may be specific to context, then?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Tendencies toward certain types of behaviour have been shown to be context-specific, i.e. the behaviour only emerges with certain situations. Milgram showed that tendencies to obedience behaviour that didn't emerge in some contexts emerged under others.
Another example would be your tendency to abuse, which only emerges when someone points out that you're wrong/talking shite/a tool.
Hope that helps!
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
Please ?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Milgram.
As you like to be picky.......
Oh, and no one has claimed 'that certain types of behaviour only emerge with certain situations.' Thats you making things up again, that is.
oh look, faux has edited its post, probly just realised what shite it was talking
As you like to be picky.......
Oh, and no one has claimed 'that certain types of behaviour only emerge with certain situations.' Thats you making things up again, that is.
oh look, faux has edited its post, probly just realised what shite it was talking
TruXta
tired
As you exemplified your point with Milgrim: Just because Milgrim showed that 'tendencies to obedience behaviour emerged in some contexts', how does it follow that certain types of behaviour only emerge with certain situations'?
Is it a bit like your tendency not be able to see your own abusive nature?
You're still looking for laws of behaviour. They don't exist, so give it up. Certain types of behaviour almost only emerge in certain situations, but you can only show that for specific individuals or small groups. For other individuals the same type of behaviour might only emerge in very different situations.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
translation: I have been completely ripped apart so I'm getting out of here. Again.
translation: got better things to do then fend off cliquey-leftists
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
????
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
translation: waaaahhh, mummy, those nasty boys are calling me names again
TruXta
tired
No leftie me, social psychologist.
translation: I'm an abusive left-leaning twonk who needs to fight my battles on-line on a forum that heavily favours me.
SpineyNorman
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SpineyNorman
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Wahey! It's wingnut bingo - can you do "PC gawn mad" next please? I need it for a full house
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