I’m not persuaded at all by the attempt to classify people into the two types. See: in your table of examples, you specify that you tried to include views you endorse in both columns. However, if you were effectively classified by your own system, your views should fit mainly or completely in one column, no?
The binary individual classification aspect of this doesn’t even seem to be consistent in your own mind, since you later talk about it as a spectrum.
Maybe you meant it as a spectrum the whole time but that seems antithetical to putting people into two well defined camps.
Setting those objections aside for a moment, there is an amusing meta level of observing which type would produce this framework.
It seems you didn’t read the argument to the end. They only motivate the distinction only to move on to formalize the notion and putting it in a shared framework that explains what is traded off and how to find the optimum mix for given error and inference rates.
It seems like you might be reading into the post what you want to see to some extent(after reading what I wrote, it looked like I’m trying to be saucy paralleling your first sentence, just want to be clear that to me this is a non valenced discussion), the OP returns to referring to K-type and T-type individual people after discussing their formal framework. That’s what makes me think that classifying people into the binary categories is meant to be the main takeaway.
I’m not going to pretend to be more knowledgeable than I am about this kind of framework, but I would not have commented anything if the post had been something like “Tradeoffs between K-type and T-type theory valuation” or anything along those lines.
Like I said, I don’t think the case has remotely been made for being able to identify well defined camps of people, and I think it’s inconsistent to say that there are K-type and T-type people, which is a “real classification”, and then talk about the spectrum between K-type and T-type people. This implies that K-type and T-type people really aren’t exclusive camps, and that there are people with a mix of K-type and T-type decision making.
There is a spectrum between two types of people, K-types and T-types.
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I’ve tried to include views I endorse in both columns, however most of my own views are right-hand column because I am more K-type than T-type.
You’re correct that this is a spectrum rather than a strict binary. I should’ve clarified this. But I think it’s quite common to describe spectra by their extrema, for example:
I’m not persuaded at all by the attempt to classify people into the two types. See: in your table of examples, you specify that you tried to include views you endorse in both columns. However, if you were effectively classified by your own system, your views should fit mainly or completely in one column, no?
The binary individual classification aspect of this doesn’t even seem to be consistent in your own mind, since you later talk about it as a spectrum.
Maybe you meant it as a spectrum the whole time but that seems antithetical to putting people into two well defined camps.
Setting those objections aside for a moment, there is an amusing meta level of observing which type would produce this framework.
Similarly, there’s an amusing meta level observation of which type would object.
It seems you didn’t read the argument to the end. They only motivate the distinction only to move on to formalize the notion and putting it in a shared framework that explains what is traded off and how to find the optimum mix for given error and inference rates.
It seems like you might be reading into the post what you want to see to some extent(after reading what I wrote, it looked like I’m trying to be saucy paralleling your first sentence, just want to be clear that to me this is a non valenced discussion), the OP returns to referring to K-type and T-type individual people after discussing their formal framework. That’s what makes me think that classifying people into the binary categories is meant to be the main takeaway.I’m not going to pretend to be more knowledgeable than I am about this kind of framework, but I would not have commented anything if the post had been something like “Tradeoffs between K-type and T-type theory valuation” or anything along those lines.
Like I said, I don’t think the case has remotely been made for being able to identify well defined camps of people, and I think it’s inconsistent to say that there are K-type and T-type people, which is a “real classification”, and then talk about the spectrum between K-type and T-type people. This implies that K-type and T-type people really aren’t exclusive camps, and that there are people with a mix of K-type and T-type decision making.
Fair. I’m sorry.
Thanks for the comments. I’ve made two edits:
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You’re correct that this is a spectrum rather than a strict binary. I should’ve clarified this. But I think it’s quite common to describe spectra by their extrema, for example:
Conflict theorists vs Mistake theorists
Convex and Concave Dispositions
Bullet-biters vs Bullet-swallowers.