Sunday, October 15, 2006

I just needed to get this in writing before i lose my train of thought on it.
I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today and a brief comment was made about how intro to psychology students (psyc students who only took one class in psychology) seem to think they can read behavior so well. So to all people who feel that way, here's a statement directed towards you noobies:

Suppose you applied for a position in university if you have not already, or rather, suppose you were an admissions officer for a university. Now, suppose you were looking at a candidate who applied for this university and you ask him to come in for an interview. Would you determine this candidates acceptence or rejection based solely on that 15-30 minute interview? Probably not. In fact, if you do, i hope you eat shit and die. If youre gonna tell me that the 15-30 minutes you spent "analyzing" this person outweighs the 4 to 5 years of collected data in the form of GPA, exam results, extra curricular activities and SAT scores, then you should never ever go into psychology... ever.
Just like intro to psyc students who think that their propsychologists just because they took that one class, and now they can read anyones behavior after 10 minutes of interaction. Not only that, but that they think their analysis overlooks decades of behavioral conditioning from an infinite amount of sources, and centuries of genetic molding and modification of the evolutionary process to determine your personality.

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