Did anyone actually read all of that manifesto of fail?
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KC (11-02-2012)
What is this thread? A checklist from MSNBC?
Anon ,
Your list expands on my concept of Hilly Billy people who live in their own Hilly Billy Land .
You have cornered them in their lair and they hate it .
That list loosely defines a certain sort of personality and mind set . Ir's pedigree is sound and based on research results which must have now been repeated many hundreds of thousands of times . They were "old hat" in the early sixties when I gained my B.A. in Psychology .
One or two of the younger and less rigorously educated here do not understand how statistical information is gathered and presented . It is unlikely that any one person exhibits all of the mentioned traits . We talk of a cluster of attitudinal vectors which define a certain personality type . But like everything in life , the labelling does not occur in "black and White" terms . Subjects lie across a spectrum , but the data repeatedly demonstrates predictive usefulness .
As a post script , I underline the fact that the HBPs find it difficult to "swap hats" and empathise with different perspectives .
But you can also produce equivalent summaries of different personality types , one of which we can call , Liberal , to keep them happy . This list can be used in whatever way the user requires to support his inflexible world view .
The truth is that there are all sorts of different personality types and all can be invaluable in defined circumstances . However , you don't want a HBP in charge of anything vital unless you want a clear , inflexible , tightly defined objective achieved without questioning . They are best used as second in charge or enforcers (they make excellent Sergeant Majors). Far too rigid and lack breadth and vision -- in general terms .
Rubbish ?
Just look around the Forum .
Point made .