"Psychology, even based upon statistics, is essentially the employment of opinions. The opinions deployed are are secondarily those those of the practitioner, and primarily those those of the accredited who have managed to have their observations codified. But their observations of human nature and behavior were perhaps no more exhaustive or invariably correct than yours or mine. Ours may be dismissible as 'anecdotal evidence,' but why should observations of sixty years of human interactions be necessarily inferior to those of one who has read twelve books." The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, an Entertainment by David Mamet
He has a point.
No comments:
Post a Comment