Empirical support for adult developmental theory using word frequency analysis. Helpful inasmuch as the empirical basis for adult stage theories is a bit sketchy.

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Methodologically, the most interesting aspect of this (apart from word frequency analysis per se) is the observation that non-monotonic frequencies indicate a genuinely staged path, rather than simply a gradual increase in a single factor.pic.twitter.com/C3uVxTFhUR
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Although the authors found some non-monotonicity in their data, it’s not a strong effect. A limitation of the study is that 90% of the subjects were in three middle Loevinger stages. Stronger non-monotonicity signals might show up with a wider developmental distribution.
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Replying to @Meaningness
This is interesting. Listening to your engrossing Imperfect Buddha chat today, caught myself getting reenamoured with Kegan again. But then had the counter thought that I may be believing Kegan's model without havin ever kicked the tyres of his data.
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I find it such a strongly explanatory framework that I don’t care all that much what the data say. This is dangerous, obviously! If you want to dig into the data, they are in https://amzn.to/2v1Q0Pv
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You may have guessed by my many replies whenever you tweet on Kegan, I'm smitten through and through. I recall (it's a few years now) that "In over our heads" had a range, depth and careful consideration/reasoning that clicked, I'd never sensed the need to consider "his data".
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Yes. One has the sense that it has to be true, almost a priori.
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