Thank you for sharing your preprint, it was quite helpful to understand your points. So, yes, we ally ourselves. I'll use the word. And it's a great point, how we ally ourselves is up for grabs. There are still clearly differences in the groups. How is it that we are unable to parse the groups cleanly? I would contend that language itsel…
Thank you for sharing your preprint, it was quite helpful to understand your points. So, yes, we ally ourselves. I'll use the word. And it's a great point, how we ally ourselves is up for grabs. There are still clearly differences in the groups. How is it that we are unable to parse the groups cleanly? I would contend that language itself is a limitation. Then again, is there a difference between groups in the sense that Roy Moore stayed on the ballot in Alabama and Al Frankin resigned? The cases had similarities. We can discuss it any way we want, but in our guts we know there is a difference. The fact that we see alliances, politics if you will, in other species is an indication that social species have ways to signal each other and show allegiance. Or, maybe we're just anthropomorphizing. Is there a socio-biological, underpinning, maybe? Love to see what is coming up on that front.
To circle back, if we look at clusters of behaviors, does that make parsing possible? An analogy is the differences between dark triad personality disorders. There are groups of symptoms that distinguish NPD from ASPD, there are overlaps as well. I'm wondering if we could find our political affiliations to be diagnosable? Again, thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks, Ken. Lots to chew on here. You might be glad to know that the paper is of the format where a bunch of other academics write commentaries and we write a response to them. I'll be posting our response to commentaries shortly and it will cover some of the ideas you raised here. Not sure if I'll blog about it but I will tweet about it, and you can always email me for a copy. Cheers.
Thank you for sharing your preprint, it was quite helpful to understand your points. So, yes, we ally ourselves. I'll use the word. And it's a great point, how we ally ourselves is up for grabs. There are still clearly differences in the groups. How is it that we are unable to parse the groups cleanly? I would contend that language itself is a limitation. Then again, is there a difference between groups in the sense that Roy Moore stayed on the ballot in Alabama and Al Frankin resigned? The cases had similarities. We can discuss it any way we want, but in our guts we know there is a difference. The fact that we see alliances, politics if you will, in other species is an indication that social species have ways to signal each other and show allegiance. Or, maybe we're just anthropomorphizing. Is there a socio-biological, underpinning, maybe? Love to see what is coming up on that front.
To circle back, if we look at clusters of behaviors, does that make parsing possible? An analogy is the differences between dark triad personality disorders. There are groups of symptoms that distinguish NPD from ASPD, there are overlaps as well. I'm wondering if we could find our political affiliations to be diagnosable? Again, thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks, Ken. Lots to chew on here. You might be glad to know that the paper is of the format where a bunch of other academics write commentaries and we write a response to them. I'll be posting our response to commentaries shortly and it will cover some of the ideas you raised here. Not sure if I'll blog about it but I will tweet about it, and you can always email me for a copy. Cheers.