For me it’s: “Chronic cannabis use during adolescence impairs emotional development in adulthood” “Over achievement in crisis situations is an indicator of ADHD” Both of which provoke “Hmm, ya probably, and fuck you too”
“What hit a little too close?”
The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
Too meta?
We talking about horoscopes here?
As if self-diagnosing neuropsychologic conditions doesn’t utilise the same principle?
“I’m so quirky, I forgot a thing once so I clearly have ADHD”
The Barnum effect in psychology refers to the gullibility of people when reading descriptions of themselves. By personality, we mean the ways in which people are different and unique. However, it is possible to give everyone the same description and people nevertheless rate the description as very very accurate.
They way I used to run this test was to give people some personality test on paper, then give everyone an envelope with a printout of their personality, have them rate the accuracy, and then reveal to everyone that they all got the same description. So, how can it be called accurate?
https://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/barnum_demo.htm
Is this where we mention “Insights”, the coloured blocks that show your co-workers your work personality traits? As part of their analysis you get to do an overly-long personality quiz. Later, when you go to their seminar, you get a book full of descriptions about you that sound like the “cold reading” stuff that fortune tellers use. That stuff is BIG-time Forer effect.
The Milgram experiment. It’s equally terrifying to think it was a fabricated experiment as it is to think it was genuinely performed.
Had to Google what that was, and I immediately recalled that old episode of the Simpons. I don’t think they exaggerated at all.
Dunning Kruger.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
There may be a great many things that I’m totally incompetent at and I just have no clue how bad I am.
The worst part about this one is once you start to realize that you don’t know as much as you think, you gain confidence in your ability to not think you know very much, and overestimate how much you think you don’t really know. You know?
Oh, I know!
I might have good news for you, there are people who claim that the effect is not because stupid people overestimate their abilities (and vice versa) but that it is just a statistical artefact. I’m not competent enough to tell if that’s correct, since I didn’t understand the argument completely, but if you want to build your own opinion, you can find many articles about it.
So, YOU are the guy conservatives over here in Germany are talking about all the time when they oppose the current legalization of cannabis? /s
But yeah, drugs are bad for kids.
I don’t necessarily view it as a bad thing. I’ve been targeting an emotional age of about 12. Maturity is overrated. Some of my SOs might not agree, though.
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I didn’t have one huge revelation but more of a slow and steady work.
Internalazing that emotions do in fact exist was biggest revelation for me.
