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| What's Your Empathy Quotient? |
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55% |
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29% |
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| Above Average (53 - 63) |
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7% |
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| Very High (64 - 80) |
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7% |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| rainism wrote: |
perhaps, but there are others.. more "real time", life based.
one example would be: if you were buying or borrowing against your house from 2005 onward like most other lemmings and did you really think house prices would continue rising. |
Sure. I think the dangerous error is in extrapolating from a single instance or cluster of instances--I may beat you in a game of sudoku or market speculation or bringing home girls from the club or World of Warcraft or getting a promotion or an IQ test or election or debate or squash, but I find it useful to remember that any instance is subject to a great many factors and isn't a universal superiority in any substantive sense. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| FMPJ wrote: |
| rainism wrote: |
perhaps, but there are others.. more "real time", life based.
one example would be: if you were buying or borrowing against your house from 2005 onward like most other lemmings and did you really think house prices would continue rising. |
Sure. I think the dangerous error is in extrapolating from a single instance or cluster of instances--I may beat you in a game of sudoku or market speculation or bringing home girls from the club or World of Warcraft or getting a promotion or an IQ test or election or debate or squash, but I find it useful to remember that any instance is subject to a great many factors and isn't a universal superiority in any substantive sense. |
...nicely put.  |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I think if you live over your means and are heavily influenced by others around you in terms of what you do, and what you buy. (trends/fads) . and are interested in "keeping up with the Joneses", you're very far on your way to being a bona fide idiot  |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| rainism wrote: |
| I think if you live over your means and are heavily influenced by others around you in terms of what you do, and what you buy. (trends/fads) . and are interested in "keeping up with the Joneses", you're very far on your way to being a bona fide idiot |
That's but one of many, many ways. |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| constantly buying the newest cellphone because you consider it an important "fashion accessory" is another |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| Sitting around, surfing Dave's idiot cafe and trying to come up with ways people can be idiots...well, ha. |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| Sitting around, surfing Dave's idiot cafe and trying to come up with ways people can be idiots...well, ha. |
(How about "Sitting around, surfing Dave's idiot cafe" and critiquing those who are "trying to come up with ways people can be idiots"?)
(Or "Sitting around, surfing Dave's idiot cafe" and offering "clever" rhetorical questions to those who critique those who are "trying to come up with ways people can be idiots"?)
(Turtles all the way down...) |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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gem
Joined: 06 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| 42. I pride myself on being objective and a good listener. It looks like this board is filled with anti social people. No wonder some of you love Korea so much. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| FMPJ wrote: |
| rainism wrote: |
perhaps, but there are others.. more "real time", life based.
one example would be: if you were buying or borrowing against your house from 2005 onward like most other lemmings and did you really think house prices would continue rising. |
Sure. I think the dangerous error is in extrapolating from a single instance or cluster of instances--I may beat you in a game of sudoku or market speculation or bringing home girls from the club or World of Warcraft or getting a promotion or an IQ test or election or debate or squash, but I find it useful to remember that any instance is subject to a great many factors and isn't a universal superiority in any substantive sense. |
...nicely put. |
I will beat you at all of those things, then I will make you waffles.
See, waffles! My EQ should be much higher.
Disclaimer: I probably would not actually make you waffles. |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Triban wrote: |
I will beat you at all of those things, then I will make you waffles.
See, waffles! My EQ should be much higher.
Disclaimer: I probably would not actually make you waffles. |
If only you could understand how it makes me feel when you so callously dangle the prospect of tasty waffles before me only to yank it away like a strip of bacon used to lure a wayward puppy out from under the bed and then unceremoniously devoured by its master, then you would have a higher empathy quotient... |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| gem wrote: |
| 42. I pride myself on being objective and a good listener. It looks like this board is filled with anti social people. No wonder some of you love Korea so much. |
You lied! You are clearly too judgmental to experience true empathy. Sympathy maybe, but not empathy. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| gem wrote: |
| 42. I pride myself on being objective and a good listener. It looks like this board is filled with anti social people. No wonder some of you love Korea so much. |
I somehow scored 36, depsite not *really* understanding how one can "really enjoy caring for other people". Isn't that work?
I am also a reaction-faker. I like to ride on cliches and canned emotions, which is why living in a foreign culture is good for me.
I think I scored 36 because I'm a big mush and feel very affected by people crying, and am also very aware when people feel uncomfortable. I'm too awkward to help, but I can always pinpoint the person who's really not getting along with others. (I'm the judgemental jerk drinking alone, reading a book). |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| Triban wrote: |
| However when my mother or sister cried it usually made me more angry than empathetic....ugh. |
Yeah...'Do you get upset when you see other people cry?' It kind of depends what they're crying about. Stupid test.
But I got a 44 average anyway... |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Kaypea wrote: |
| I somehow scored 36, depsite not *really* understanding how one can "really enjoy caring for other people". Isn't that work? |
Maybe it is or maybe it isn't, but regardless, people can "really enjoy" work. |
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