Grade 5 Syndrome.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The idea that someone can live like that is very

Wrong! The idea that someone can live like that is actually very $$$'s

See Cain's post.

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He was actually studying hypnosis.  The grade fives are the ultra sensitive, essentially hypnotizing themselves.

I remember RAW mentioning that when he practiced hypnotism, some of his subjects would readily drop straight into a deep trance, instead of the light trance he intended.

[The Wizard]

This is basically doublethink. I'm sort of suprised that it's just five percent. I've met plenty of people like that...

[P3nT4gR4m]

This is basically doublethink. I'm sort of suprised that it's just five percent. I've met plenty of people like that...

Maybe it's you.

OMGZ PROJECTION!!!

[The Wizard]

Maybe it's me?

[Arafelis]

Maybe it's me?

Maybe you're invested in the idea that people who don't think like you but do think kind of like other people (who are also people you don't think like) are simply easily susceptible to groupthink/suggestion, rather than having some other set of reasons for not thinking like you.

[The Wizard]

Hmm. Possible. I didn't mean that everyone I know was like that, but I know a fair number of people who make it a rule to follow the group. Or at least that I observed. But you might be right.

[Aufenthatt]

Hmm. Possible. I didn't mean that everyone I know was like that, but I know a fair number of people who make it a rule to follow the group. Or at least that I observed. But you might be right.

I think you're mistaking the hardwired conformity in all people with being abnormally susceptible to influence. Everyone follows the group doggedly in some situations.

[MMIX]

This is basically doublethink. I'm sort of suprised that it's just five percent. I've met plenty of people like that...

When does plenty of people become five percent - how ma ny people are there in your sample, is there sampling bias how would 5% of people appear to you, what are your parameters for making that kind of assumption?

[The Wizard]

It was just a statement of opinion. And also me being an ass. Sorry if I flapped my gums without a facts supported, expert testimony, argument ready.

[Kai]

He was actually studying hypnosis.  The grade fives are the ultra sensitive, essentially hypnotizing themselves.

Is there a name for people that are near impossible to hypnotize?

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He was actually studying hypnosis.  The grade fives are the ultra sensitive, essentially hypnotizing themselves.

Is there a name for people that are near impossible to hypnotize?

unwilling

[Arafelis]

It was just a statement of opinion. And also me being an ass. Sorry if I flapped my gums without a facts supported, expert testimony, argument ready.

I don't think any of the commenters meant to suggest you were being an ass.  I did not, and apologize if my comment came across that way.

Statistics and anecdotal evidence are notoriously easy to screw up.  Don't be surprised when they are endlessly challenged in online discussions.  People mostly only accept their own anecdotal evidence.

[Cainad (dec.)]

It was just a statement of opinion. And also me being an ass. Sorry if I flapped my gums without a facts supported, expert testimony, argument ready.

I don't think any of the commenters meant to suggest you were being an ass.  I did not, and apologize if my comment came across that way.

Statistics and anecdotal evidence are notoriously easy to screw up.  Don't be surprised when they are endlessly challenged in online discussions.  People mostly only accept their own anecdotal evidence.

Bolded for the source of 75% of all disagreements, online and IRL.

In my own personal experience, of course.

[MMIX]

It was just a statement of opinion. And also me being an ass. Sorry if I flapped my gums without a facts supported, expert testimony, argument ready.

I don't think any of the commenters meant to suggest you were being an ass.  I did not, and apologize if my comment came across that way.

Statistics and anecdotal evidence are notoriously easy to screw up.  Don't be surprised when they are endlessly challenged in online discussions.  People mostly only accept their own anecdotal evidence.

Bolded for the source of 75% of all disagreements, online and IRL.

In my own personal experience, of course.