How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by oefrha on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:38AM (#22065477)

Hah, this reminds me of zodiac signs, which every single non-scientist female friend of mine seems to take very seriously (not sure about male friends since this topic seems to never come up). No wonder it sells.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by epx on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:31PM (#22067387)

And the zodiac signs are also divided in 4 groups (air, fire, earth, water) so it seems the idea of dividing people in 4 quadrants is pretty old.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by SuoDuanDao on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:50PM (#22068167)

I've seen an analysis of the phenomenon where the four elements correspond to 4 major neurotransmitters, with the traits associated with having a lot of one element being pretty close to having a lot of the corresponding neurotransmitter. Maybe there really is a potentially useful means of categorizing people there.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by type0 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:20PM (#22067865)

What idiot-colors do you think it would corresponds to?

fire - red

water - blue

earth - green

air - yellow

pretty sure it's "scientific"

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by epx on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:48PM (#22068144)

I don't know, the only thing I remember is water ~= Pisces ~= melancholic ~= <some color>

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by flingo on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:44PM (#22067534)

Have you tried to be a scientist yourself and getting some numbers to test your hypothesis?

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by oefrha on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:59PM (#22067683)

I am a scientist myself but unfortunately I have neither the time nor interest to test every little hypothesis of mine, especially outside my field of expertise.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by tim333 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:51PM (#22071696)

Unlike zodiac signs there probably is some reality to catogrising people as say people oriented or analytic in their typical behaviour in the manner of the Idiots book.

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