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Re: Excellent diary. (none / 1)
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the gulf between the scientific and literary communities that I believe is exactly the cause of quite a lot of friction in these thread I've observed.

Interesting theory.

Migeru and others have attempted to explain the dust-ups on the basis of incompatible personality types and are planning a mass myers brigg test for the community, Frank Schnittger:

I'm thinking of writing a melodrama in 4 acts, with scrambling lieutenants and parts for introverts, Extroverts, Intuiters, sensors, thinkers, Feelers, perceivers,  and judges.  You guys can do the casting.

http://www.eurotrib.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2008/1/1/11415/37691

I'm wondering if we need to appoint an ET Psychotherapist....

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 at 04:41:57 PM EST
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Re: Excellent diary. (4.00 / 6)
Having grown up with one parent a militant atheist, and the other a new-age devotee, I've sort of been threading this needle my whole life.  From what I've seen, much of the hostility comes from a basic epistemological incompatibility that is poorly understood on both ends, and that it is the failure to understand this basic logical and evidential problem that leads to so much of the hostility.

In essence, both sides are talking past each other, but the problem is that they think it's possible to talk to each other, and get angry when they are misunderstood - when in fact, understanding is fundamentally impossible.

by Zwackus on Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 at 06:20:47 PM EST
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