So ;like in psyche this semester we've been talking about statistics and stuff and I got me thinking. Why do we put so much hope on statistics which are really only a mean or mode of a population. It's like taking five people out of the group find the mean of their answers and making a generalization off of that.
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Yes!!!! I see your point!! It drives me crazy!!!! They say things like...one out of every five people...when in actuality they have only spoken to five people. ugh.
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That would be because seeing people as individuals is far too complex and unrealistic. Viewing them as a standard is easier, makes them organizable, leaves emotional attachment in the toilet so as to not obscure our opinion, and, of course, there's always the fact that there's a base pattern to anyone and everything.
Said pattern may not always keep to the standard, but judging as a group, it generally leaves you with a useful guideline to work off of.
I mean, doing as such does wonders for presidential candidates, tyrants, and the entertainment/commercial industry. It's always a good thing to know just how to manipulate the masses into doing what you want.
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lol
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