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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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Are We Labelling Someone Perfectly?
Scott alexander, the blogger and psychiatrist, has written extensively about something he calls taxometrics. And what it says is that when we try to label somebody based on some behaviors that aren't easily measured, except for this one thing we're choosing to measure on, we're going to get it wrong almost time. Just about everything about people, i's like cranberry's. It's on a spectrum. Some people have more autism than others, some people have more a d h d than others. We cannot label somebody perfectly.
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