Reflections on reading Impro: why does a drama teacher have a vastly better model of status games than any class of peopleologists?
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Society actively squeezes out drama as ‘unprofessional’. If people are stuck in a certain way of being it’s easier to stick that cog in the right place. Peopleologists tend to mostly work similarly from a “fix this person for society”.
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True, although there are plenty of exceptions to the latter point especially.
Still, I think there are modelling issues. Simulation may simply outstrip lab work or certain kinds of field work in terms of clarity.
Or Johnstone is just that good. Also a possibility.