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Yup, and I can see why. I’ve got a couple of women friends who post quite frequently, and I’ll skim the comments in response to their postings. Facebook is literally the perfect validation machine. A woman can post any thought or complaint, and immediately have both the female herd and male supplicants/orbiters chime in to tell her how right she is, or how wonderful and gorgeous she is. Any dissenters, challengers, can be immediately unfriended and purged to preserve the purity of nothing but validation and reinforcement. It’s like a circle of magical mirrors where everywhere the person looks they just see their gorgeous reflection. I can see why that would be addictive.

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Richard Aubrey says:
March 31, 2015 at 8:05 pm
David Foster.
WRT M-B. In the psych biz, they don’t know as much as they want you to think they do. To put it another way, they frequently know what they don’t know; they know that their findings are for a majority–presumably 51% to maybe 80%–but not necessarily how big a majority.
And, as I keep saying, while their findings are useful for general discussions, their application to the person sitting across from you at the coffee shop is, theoretically, slightly better than random. Except, the person sitting across from you at the coffee shop is from the cohort of people who would sit across from you at the coffee shop, which is to say part of what they are or are not is a function of the kind of people who would be sitting across from you at the coffee shop and thus, by definition, not representative of the population supposedly represented by the sample the pshrinks pshrunk.
I know this is unpopular around here since there is so much assertive and unqualified certainty about categories of people.

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