RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 24, 2018 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2018 at 4:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 24, 2018 at 3:00 pm)Fireball Wrote:(April 24, 2018 at 1:58 pm)polymath257 Wrote: And three types of mathematician: those who can count, and those who can't.
10, Base 3
Enumerate.
(April 24, 2018 at 12:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are only two kinds of people: Real human beings and republicunts.
Republicunts are people now? Damn bleeding heart lumper!
(April 24, 2018 at 11:38 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: In every classification scheme, there are two camps. There are those classifiers who tend to find similarities between things and prefer to lump smaller groups into larger groups, and on the other hand those catalogers who tend to find differences and prefer to split larger groups into smaller groups. In thinking about human nature, too, there are lumpers and splitters. Splitters like to emphasize the ways in which we are distinct from the other animals, such as our rationality, language, opposable thumbs, bipedalism, civilization, and so on. Lumpers on the other hand believe that the most significant influence on the way we are is those ways in which we share traits with other animals. This includes things like our social nature, the importance of sex and reproduction, our emotions, and so on.
Which do you think is more important for shaping what we are as humans today? Are you a lumper or a splitter?
I am a splitter when it comes to having sex. I am a lumper when it comes to sea food flavored treats.
