Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 640 questions whose correlations with mental illness are entirely statistical without regard to how they might relate to illness; over a thousand ways to analyze the answers.
Example: "I liked to play 'Dopt The Handkerchief' as a child" correlates with schizophrenia. I've never heard of "Drop…
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 640 questions whose correlations with mental illness are entirely statistical without regard to how they might relate to illness; over a thousand ways to analyze the answers.
Example: "I liked to play 'Dopt The Handkerchief' as a child" correlates with schizophrenia. I've never heard of "Drop the Handkerchief."
I might be on the autism spectrum, I will likely never know.
[I do know as of this morning I don't have prostate cancer. I had a complete blood work done here, there are some alarms (I was told not to eat or take insulin after 6PM the previous evening and my blood sugar was emergency room high), but my PSAs are smack in the middle of normal and before my age my father had prostate cancer twice.]
Not being a drinker I knew nothing about alcohol, then a friend of fifteen years whom I had not seen in ten came to visit. He weighed twice what he used to and after a few days here I noticed this weird temper I had never seen before. Since then I have seen it in others and now know a marker for alcoholism: an increasing temper that feeds on itself. MOST unpleasant.
Rationality ≠ Logic. Perfectly logical thinking predicated on false information can lead to floid irrationality. Read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"; one of those books like Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" that everyone intelligent needs to know.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 640 questions whose correlations with mental illness are entirely statistical without regard to how they might relate to illness; over a thousand ways to analyze the answers.
Example: "I liked to play 'Dopt The Handkerchief' as a child" correlates with schizophrenia. I've never heard of "Drop the Handkerchief."
I might be on the autism spectrum, I will likely never know.
[I do know as of this morning I don't have prostate cancer. I had a complete blood work done here, there are some alarms (I was told not to eat or take insulin after 6PM the previous evening and my blood sugar was emergency room high), but my PSAs are smack in the middle of normal and before my age my father had prostate cancer twice.]
Not being a drinker I knew nothing about alcohol, then a friend of fifteen years whom I had not seen in ten came to visit. He weighed twice what he used to and after a few days here I noticed this weird temper I had never seen before. Since then I have seen it in others and now know a marker for alcoholism: an increasing temper that feeds on itself. MOST unpleasant.
Rationality ≠ Logic. Perfectly logical thinking predicated on false information can lead to floid irrationality. Read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"; one of those books like Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" that everyone intelligent needs to know.
Glad you got the all-clear!