I’m curious. Did you say “aspire to aspire to post into Main” deliberately?
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Might have something to do with the fact that happy/sad is neither an accurate nor an encompassing description of the uses of major/minor chords, unless you place a C major and a C or A minor directly next to each other. I for one find that when I try to tell the difference solely on that basis, I might as well flip a coin and my success rate would go down only slightly. When I come at it from other directions and ignore the emotive impact, my success rate is much higher.
In short: Your conclusion doesn’t follow from the evidence.
Being promised low stress/high satisfaction and having a rough idea of what kind of work or work environment is (more or less) enjoyable to you are quite different things. A given idea of which work is enjoyable won’t be 100% accurate; there are always going to be surprises from both inside the mind and out. But most people have a rough idea what kind of work they prefer to do. That’s where the low stress/high satisfaction predictions come from in this scenario.
Obviously one can only expect so much “enjoyment” in a work environment (and no “work” is fun and enjoyable 100% of the time), but if one type of work feels worthwhile to a given person, and the other doesn’t, even if this is on the basis of inference, then for some people this is going to be a significant factor in how good/bad they feel about passing up those $90k jobs for the PhD program that might now be in question.
The money isn’t necessarily the only factor. Don’t forget about location, working hours, stress levels, and job satisfaction. I’d take a $70k job that’s intrinsically rewarding over a $100k job that “isn’t really my type of environment” any day.
Of course, I’d have to KNOW that the $70k job was intrinsically rewarding and that the $100k job wouldn’t be, but if the hypothetical fool does know this about his PhD job prospects, for example he wants to be an academic and the job offers so far are in unintellectual labor, or in the family business, or in a city he/she would like to avoid settling down in, or involve 50% more hours than the target job of the same wage --
I don’t know if that’s useful or not, but I’ll err on the side of opening my mouth.
Actually they would associate the stick with a number of things, including but not limited to the stupid thought process. They would be quite likely to associate the stick with their encounter with Eliezer, and to their (failed) attempt to converse with and/or follow his thought processes. Mind: They associate the stick with all aspects of the attempt, not only with the failure.
It might work in a Master/Apprentice scenario where the stick-hitting-victim is bindingly pre-committed to a year of solitude with Stick-Happy!Eliezer in order to learn from him the art of Cognitive Kung Fu. This is the only scenario I can immediately visualize in which the stick-hitting victim would not immediately decide that Stick-Happy!Eliezer is a person they can get away with avoiding, and possibly with reporting to the police for assault.
EDIT01: This is assuming that the experiential sample size is 1.
Easily reduced, in theory; educate them about the false dichotomy and other basic fallacies -early-, and have it cost them marks when said basic fallacies punctuate their thinking, the same as any other error.
Of course, it’s not so easy to get that implemented in the broader system, in a world where people refuse to be taught how to think. But while we’re talking about the “ideal” education...
Yeah, I spotted that after making my comment, but after that I wasn’t sure whether you were citing the same source material or no. The actual evidence does say a lot more about how humans (don’t?) perceive musical sounds. Thanks for clarifying, though.