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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2888)12/9/2008 7:11:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Re: "once you know how to spot them, they're very obvious and are read by the trained observer with a very high degree of reliability AND validity..."

Right...

Well, just mark me down as 'skeptical' until I see a cataloging that most professionals will AGREE WITH.

(Further: if meanings are agreed to for various micro gestures, then it would be easy to input those as instructions for a computer --- which would eliminate ALL POSSIBILITY of tester bias from creeping in to the test --- and we would be able to verify that the meanings are as they are alleged to be!)

Re: "ALL body language must be taken within the context of the individual and the situation... this is why you can't simply write a cookbook interpretation for each gesture, it all depends on the person and the circumstance..."

Right.

But clearly there would be gestures that are 'micro', and then ones that are NOT. That are macro.

Re: "ALL psychometric tests must also be reliable and valid for specific cultures... of course, you can't administer one culturally specific test to an individual from another culture... this is the obvious first rule in all psychometric and psychodiagnostic testing..."

Ah! So we are in full agreement on that one....
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