Eric,
Yes, you are right, the content is a bit controversial, a wild hodgepodge of
unrelated things. It is certainly not an example of good science.. It would
be useful for marketing purposes, though, the animations are nice. And you
must admit that the video contains some thought-provoking issues.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: ERIC P. CHARLES
To: Jochen Fromm
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Time perspectives
Jochen,
It is a wonderful video, but I worry about the content.
Zimbardo's ability to mix a small amount of science with a lot of
common-sense vacuous, but appealing, bull shit, never ceases to amaze me.
For example, "All addictions are addictions of present hedonism." Really?
Have we checked ALL addictions. Do we have a good enough definition of
'addiction' to really test the hypothesis? Is that merely true by
definition? If I came up with an alternative example, like say a compulsive
collector of past-related items (old baseball cards, records, civil war
memorabilia), would you simply keep twisting it until you could justify it
in terms of your original statement. I think at least half of the things
said could be subjected to similar criticism. For another example, as a kid
I played far more than 10,000 hours of video games, I'm not so sure there is
a direct relationship between that and school/life failure. Correlation?
Maybe, but I'll bet Phil's intro stats classes mentioned something about the
relationship between correlation and causation.
And yet I maintain my faith that in subjects other than Psychology Stanford
has important people.
Eric
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 07:01 AM, "Jochen Fromm" <[email protected]> wrote:
In this wonderfully animated video, Philip Zimbardo talks about the
geography of time, time perspectives, online gaming and sit-down family
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