Psuedoscience
bq. You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others’ statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.
Does that describe you? Of course it does. Some guy named Forer gave his students a personality test, threw away their responses and gave them each of them this same response and asked them to rate the response on a scale from 0 to 5. The average was 4.2. He concluded that when people are given what they think to be personalized descriptions of themselves, they tend to ascribe high marks to it, when in reality, the descriptions are vague and very general. It’s what a lot of scholars believe is the reason for widespread belief in [crap] such as astrology and horoscopes.
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On an unrelated note, I was riding around last night, and the passenger seat flew off on the exit to I-90. Thought I lost it for good.
But then we drove on the highway in hopes of finding it smashed, and it wasn’t, just lying there in the shoulder. Quite lucky. Even found some of the stuff that flew out.