That's obvious.
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Replying to @DougShadle @courtneybhilton and
But we can't just make words mean whatever we want them to mean, either.
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Replying to @DougShadle @courtneybhilton and
Is the team here willing to drop the word "universal" in favor of something more descriptive and perhaps even more accurate? If not, why not? My sense is that it does political and social work that enhances the luster of the project beyond what the results actually show.
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Replying to @DougShadle @courtneybhilton and
I'm not sure if your claim is true, but it could be (empirical question). Landing on a mutual understanding of what "universal" means in different disciplines would be a good goal — so long as the definition is actually useful (cf "statistical universal" which I find odd).
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Replying to @samuelmehr @courtneybhilton and
Only one group here seems to be using it in a discipline-specific way, or else there wouldn't be half a dozen people trying to explain it using other, more precise language.
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Replying to @DougShadle @courtneybhilton and
I don't find "1000% of a population has to have feature X" to be a useful definition of "universal", though, nor (I think) do many psychologists
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Replying to @samuelmehr @courtneybhilton and
Ok, then don't use the word. It's really that simple.
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Replying to @DougShadle @samuelmehr and
Talk about intellectual arrogance: "This word doesn't mean what I want/need it to mean, so I'll just use it another way and hope it catches on."
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This isn't simply a case of "I think it means X. You think it means Y. Let's just be friends."
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Replying to @DougShadle @courtneybhilton and
Perhaps ironic to this situation -- the paper itself goes into the troubling history of the use of the word to suit specific scientific ends! Amazing that the word's malleability is now seen as "objective."
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