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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2859)12/8/2008 7:51:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Re: "You just raised the age old question of trying to quantifying a practice that is supposed to be scientific.."

You mean: 'trying to quantify a practice (a mental attitude) called "arrogance" by way of some sort of scientific measure', right?

Gestures could certainly be one way to gain some sort of 'peak' into the inner mental state, but I hardly think that it would be the only possible method.

(Computers might be best for scoring human gestures though... because once their rule set is defined there would be no possibility for human bias to be introduced into the measurement.)

Any way you'd choose to go about measuring (& then ranking...) individual's "arrogance level" though... I imagine you'd have a bear of a job on your hands.

As to 'gestures' (for the sole method of assessing 'arrogance')... gestures would be TOTALLY culture-specific though.

The meaning of gestures would vary WIDELY across different cultures.

(If you don't believe me then just try and go give an American "OK" sign to a native Greek. :-)
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