Via muito mais longe...Caminhou da ordem para o caos / a medida da desordem

Ludwig Boltzmann
Mas os sabichões da sua época achavam que sabiam mais que ele e ridicularizaram-no...
O que havia ele de fazer....?
Não abandonar aquilo que para ele fazia sentido, mesmo que solitariamente.
Tendeu para um certo grau de desorganização e acabou suicidando-se.
Mais coisas aqui.

"Disorder is the fate of everything."

''gift'' has two strong connotations

"first, that it is something beneficial, and secondly that it is given to the recipient by an external source.
[...] Recognising ability can be done without segregation."
Aqui

desnorte

"Remove one highly assertive member from a group of eight candidates and everyone else's personalities will appear to change."
Daniel Kahneman, in Thinking, Fast and Slow

Só sei que nada sei

"Experts are just human in the end. They are dazzled by their own brilliance and hate to be wrong. Experts are led astray not by what they believe, but by how they think."

"The line that separates the possibly predictable future from the unpredictable distant future is yet to be drawn."

Daniel Kahneman, in Thinking, Fast andSlow

Será que o Marcelo alguma vez leu Kahneman, ou Tetlock?

"People that spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have distributed their choices evenly over options. Even in the region they knew best, experts were not significantly better than nonspecialists."
Daniel Kahneman, in Thinking, Fast and Slow

Philip Tetlock explicou as, denominadas, "previsões dos especialistas" num proeminente estudo que durou 20 anos e que publicou no seu livro Expert Political Judgement: How Good is it? How Can We Know? Entrevistou 284 pessoas cuja actividade principal era o comentário político ou económico. Recolheu mais de 80.000 previsões e verificou a sua veracidade. Os resultados foram devastadores para os peritos.

A ideologia da barbárie



Coisas que circulam por aí



da carneirada e de forma como se apoiam uns aos outros

"We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers."
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Quem canta assim...

Quão louco és tu? / A subjectividade do diagnóstico de doença mental / You can't judge a book by it's cover






Qual a diferença entre traços de carácter e desordens psiquiátricas?

10 voluntários.
5 sãos.
5 diagnosticados com doença mental.
Não se conhecem.
Deixaram a família para conviverem uns com os outros, durante uma semana, num castelo.

Todos passaram por um rigoroso exame psiquiátrico e foram declarados aptos para participar nesta experiência.

Um é anoréctico.
Um sofre de doença bipolar.
Um fez uma tentativa de suicídio.
Um padece de timidez excessiva e ansiedade social.

Os responsáveis pelo documentário reuniram um painel de especialistas (todos bastante ansiosos, por sinal) com larga experiência:

Prof. Michael First , psiquiatra.
Ian Hewlett, enfermeiro psiquiátrico.
Richard Bentall, psicólogo clínico.

Estes especialistas vão observar e avaliar os voluntários durante 5 dias.

As provas por que vão passar os voluntários foram concebidas para fazer sobressair as seis mais comuns desordens de origem psiquiátrica:

- Depressão
- Ansiedade social
- Esquizofrenia
- Transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo
- Doença bipolar
- Anorexia

O painel de especialistas terá de decidir quem padece destes transtornos.

Testes realizados:
- Falar em frente a uma audiência.
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
- Limpar montanhas de bosta de vaca (fresquinha)
- Questões ligadas ao sentimento de culpa
- Attributional Style Questionnaire
- Paintball
- Teste de orientação
- Teste de conforto com o próprio corpo
- Teste de realidade virtual (uma viagem no metro de Londres). Um teste que puxa pelas tendências para ter pensamentos paranoicos.
- Teste que confronta as pessoas com a tomada de decisões

A inspiração para este estudo vem de 1973. Um homem chamado Dr. David Rosenhan escandalizou a psiquiatria. Ele e mais sete amigos (todos saudáveis) tentaram ser admitidos em vários hospitais psiquiátricos através dos EUA. Foram todos diagnosticados com doença mental.
Foi um estudo controverso que criou uma tempestade no meio. O significado exacto deste estudo tem sido alvo de muitas interpretações e disputas.
O estudo desafia a habilidade dos especialistas em traçarem uma fina linha entre a sanidade e a insanidade.

O desfecho:
It's been a testing week. There's no doubt it's left everyone involved reflecting on the complexity of mental health and of what it means to be seen as normal by society.

e diz um dos especialistas:
"I know what people say about mental health professionals, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, but we were really happy we got it wrong. From that point of view it makes a very important point for the public. It keeps us [professionals] humble but it also means that the public needs to realize that you cannot just look at someone and make assumptions and when someone has been labled with a mental disorder or with an episode of mental illness it's a very unhelpful thing to do to interpret everything they do through a poorly understood label."

Conselhos



Aux enfants de la chance
Qui n'ont jamais connu les transes
Des shoots et du shit
Je dirai en substance
Ceci 
Touchez pas à la poussière d'ange 
Angel dust en 
Shoot ou en shit 
Zéro héro à l'infini
Je dis dites-leur et dis-leur 
De casser la gueule aux dealers
Qui dans l'ombre attendent leur heure 
L'horreur d'min nuit 

Aux enfants de la chance
Qui n'ont jamais connu les transes
Des shoots et du shit
Je dirai en substance
Ceci
Ne commettez pas d'imprudences
Surtout n'ayez pas l'imprudence
De vous faire foutre en l'air avant l'heure dite
Comme Samantha Edith
Et dites
Je dis dites-leur et dis-leur
De casser la gueule aux dealers
Qui dans l'ombre attendent leur heure
L'horreur d'min nuit

Aux enfants de la chance
Qui n'ont jamais connu les transes
Des shoots et du shit
Je dirai en substance
Ceci
N'approchez pas le magic mushroom
N'essayez surtout pas le free base
Car c'est lui qui vous baise
C'est celui qui vous baise
A l'aise
Je dis dites-leur et dis-leur
De casser la gueule aux dealers
Qui dans l'ombre attendent leur heure
L'horreur d'min nuit

Aux enfants de la chance
Qui n'ont jamais connu les transes
Des shoots et du shit
Je dirai en substance
Ceci
Touchez pas au dragon chasing
Chasse au dragon
Qui se prend en shoot ou en shit
Zéro héro à l'infini
Je dis dites-leur et dis-leur
De casser la gueule aux dealers
Qui dans l'ombre attendent leur heure
L'horreur d'min nuit

(pardon my french caso haja erros)

«Los muros más potentes se quiebran por fisuras»


"Los amos del mundo deciden a diario quién va a morir de hambre"

Coisas que circulam por aí

Estava eu a assistir a um vídeo sobre alimentação quando reparei num comentário escrito mais abaixo e que passo a transcrever por ser TÃO verdadeiro:


So true. When you go vegan, everyone around you becomes:
• An expert on nutrition
• A philosopher
• Someone who "knew some vegans once" with health problems
• An expert on slaughterhouses who assures you the animals are being "humanely" slaughtered
Etc.

Pattern recognition / intuition


"Guessing intelligently avoids analysis paralysis."
Susan Polgar

Pensar global


"They arrive at correct solutions without taking steps, so “show your work” may be impossible for them. They may have difficulty with easy tasks, but show amazing ability with difficult, complex tasks. They are systems thinkers who can orchestrate large amounts of information from different domains, but they often miss the details. They tend to be organizationally impaired and unconscious about time. They are often gifted creatively, technologically, mathematically or emotionally.You can tell you have one of these children by the endless amount of time they spend doing advanced puzzles, constructing with Legos, etc., completing mazes, counting everything, playing Tetris on the computer, playing chess, building with any materials at hand, designing scientific experiments, programming your computer, or taking everything in the house apart to see how it operates. They also are very creative, dramatic, artistic and musical."
Mais aqui

To be handled with care


"When advanced cognition brings information into awareness for which the child or adult is emotionally unprepared, vulnerability is the natural result. But we must be careful not to equate emotional fragility with immaturity. Most of world's treasures are delicate and need to be handled with care, like fine china, crystal, paintings, roses, orchids, and children. All delicacy is at risk in crude and aggressive environments. It is the vulnerability of the gifted that requires special provisions.

Dabrowski (1979/1994) found morally and emotionally advanced adults gentle, delicate, nonaggressive, likely to withdraw rather than retaliate, “heroic” in their sensitivity. He felt that because of their sensitivity and integrity, these individuals are capable of bringing humanity to a higher set of values, but that they are at great risk of being destroyed by society because of their inherent differences. The values Dabrowski considered indispensable to harmonious living include: an empathic attitude toward others, tolerance (not aggression), responsibility for others and for self, a just attitude (treating everybody by the same standards), helping each other, giving though to the harmed and humiliated, to invalids, to the sick, to the ineffectual and those devastated by their own loneliness, truthfulness, authenticity, and just social care."

The Universal Experience of Being Out-of-Sync
Linda Kreger Silverman

A importância da aprendizagem / A genius is work and fortunate circumstances




"Intuition sounds more like magic than science, but Hartston believes [min 30:30] it is a specific skill displayed by experts in all fields and it can be explained."



Susan Polgar é a melhor jogadora de xadrez do mundo. Mas ela não nasceu com o seu cérebro brilhante - foi criado por uma experiência única que dominou toda a sua infância. Desde os 4 anos de idade foi treinada a jogar xadrez pelo seu pai até seis horas por dia. Crescer nos inícios dos anos 70, e até então nenhuma mulher tinha ainda ganho o título máximo em campeonatos de xadrez. Acreditava-se que o cérebro feminino não apresentava a adequada consciência espacial necessária para este jogo. Hoje em dia, a memória e o reconhecimento de padrões são reconhecidos como as áreas chave utilizadas por peritos em todos os campos -desde empregados de mesa a bombeiros. O verdadeiro génio de Susan revela-se ao jogar uma partida de xadrez, inteira, através de um telemóvel. O seu adversário pode ver o tabuleiro, mas ela não. Em vez disso usa a sua memória para visualizar o jogo.

Inteligência visual-espacial

"Who are the visual-spatials among us? These are the artists, musicians, engineers, mathematicians, and computer junkies. They also tend to be the students who are underachieving and labeled with a learning disability. Many gifted children are visual-spatial. Most of the visual-spatials who have contacted me through my website are poor at spelling, their thoughts are not well-organized. I’m sure if they could just email me a picture of what they were thinking, it would be a masterpiece, but the science of spelling, sentence structure and eloquence in writing eludes them. Where auditory-sequential learners do well in timed tests, visual-spatials tend to panic. Auditory-sequential students are analytical thinkers who learn from models and follow oral directions well, while visual-spatial learners see complex relationships and may appear inattentive in class. They prefer to develop their own methods of problem-solving rather than just “following directions.” How do we identify visual-spatial learners? These are the students who need to see the task to be completed, not just told - they are not auditory. They are not detail-oriented but holistic; they’re the ones on step ten who didn’t show you steps one through nine. These kids tend to focus on ideas, not format. They look for the patterns in everything. They are divergent thinkers, who see many possible answers, rather than one convergent answer that the teacher or test constructor had C-230; 10 Rev. 2/7/04 http://www.gifteddevelopment.comWays You Can Help Keep Gifted Education Alive Linda Silverman, Ph.D. in mind. Like all gifted children, they are also sensitive, intense and display asynchronous development, but these traits are often more extreme."
The Universal Experience of Being Out-of-Sync
Linda Kreger Silverman

Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation

" As we work, we sit more than we do anything else. We're averaging 9.3 hours a day, compared to 7.7 hours of sleeping. Sitting is so prevalent and so pervasive that we don't even question how much we're doing it. And, everyone else is doing it also, so it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, I've come to see that sitting is the smoking of our generation."
Mais aqui.

Devíamos só saber que nada sabemos


"A nossa convicção reconfortante de que o mundo faz sentido assenta num fundamento seguro: a nossa quase ilimitada habilidade em ignorar a nossa ignorância."
Daniel Kahneman, in Thinking, Fast and Slow