Who do you think will make more accurate predictions about humans: a 25-year-old sociology/psychology graduate student who has read a ton of studies, or a thousand-year-old vampire?
Who do you think will make more accurate predictions about humans: a 25-year-old sociology/psychology graduate student...
Daniel Young
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Luis Gutierrez
The vampire. He's got 1000 years of experience and he knows how people have changed over the years. Hands-on experience is one of the most powerful methods of judgment we have.
Benjamin Cooper
A 25 year old sociology graduate student will have less accurate predictions about humans than a 25 year old highschool dropout.
Aiden Foster
A 25-year-old sociology/psychology graduate student will have less accurate predictions than the average retarded inbred dalmatian puppy.
Grayson Jackson
Depends on where the Vampire has been in those years, how many years he'sbeen awake for, and if the undead can actually learn and change.
I mean, there are some pretty retarded old people.
Then again, the 25 year old sociologist could easily be just as biased even if he's well read. I would rather trust a mathematician who later got into sociology and had no strong prior affiliations with any particular stances.
Or best of all, a group of sociologists who understood statistics and had many different political stances.
Bias is a bitch.
Levi Cooper
>t. All I know about psychology is pop psych retardation
The psych grad.
Carson Jones
Even the mathematician who switch to sociology would have his own stance. The fact that you can bias your data even unwittingly to fit your intended conclusion is something that gets drilled into your head in every field of science.
Zachary Diaz
The 1000 year old Vampire is absolutely mad, likely somewhat suicidal and just generally a broken mess unless it has an explicitly non-Human mind. Unless you can give me some details on how, if at all, his cognitive functions are different from a Human, I'd take a pregrad psychology student's opinion over his.
Isaac Cook
That's why I went further on to say the ideal situation is a group.
Really, the mathematical background is just so that this person would understand statistics and not just be some dope with a degree for agreeing with their professor.
Yes, I know actual sociologists SHOULD understand statistics. But I wanted to be sure that this one would.
Lincoln Richardson
Neither, but the vampire will know there's no point in trying to guess what humans will do, while the sociology student still believes he can unearth some rhyme or reason to our actions.