> > Scuse me if I get the psychology wrong.
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> > Wouldn't an hammer be many, many people's first idea of a tool? (Cause it's a common tool)
> >
> > Wouldn't be red often be the first color that comes to mind? (Cause it's many people's favorite color or something)
> >
> > Where was the statistical sample for this based? How big was it?
> >
> > Was it adjusted for possible cultural bias? (Especially if the math thing is an integral part of the test, I personnally believe that 15+6 = Vingt et un, most of you think it's twenty one...)
> >
> > 'tienne
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> This was my question. I did, in fact, think of 'hammer' and 'red' (though not a red hammer), which apparently makes me normal with respect to the rest of the world, and abnormal among Rinkies... 'scuse me while I go sackcloth-shopping.
>

Yea, that kinda bugs me. I study social science. Psychology, sociology, all sorts of interesting (Right!) introduction class.

Anyway, one of the part my Intro. Psych teacher was very insistent about was on test subject in experiments - If we're using human subject, we have to preserve their physical and psychological integrity at any cost, unless it is deemed necessary for science (IE, that experiment with the simulated electroshocks... I keep forgetting the name), and when it is done, you have to insure the subject get whatever treatement they need. (Physical integrity isn't even something you'd consider touching)

So anyway, that test, albeit not a controlled experiment, directly attack dignity (You're not normal.) for no reasons at all. It's just not a good thing. (A depressive person just don't need to get told that they're not normal, on top of what they might endure)

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