#most importantly what's your actual rate of accuracy? how do you prevent implicit bias from affecting your predictions?
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I'm neurodivergent and we absolutely are not good at that.
Things that work in fiction but not real life
torture getting reliable information out of people
knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour
jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact
calling the police to deescalate a situation
rafting your way off a desert island
correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes
effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences
heterosexual cowboy
#like not to be rude but I'm talking scientifically. nobody can reliably profile strangers#you need to get to know someone before you can make reliable predictions about their behavior and what they're feeling#there are countless variations in the way people express their own emotions and intent. many of them contradictory#in some cultures making eye contact conveys honesty. in others it is rude. and even ppl FROM those cultures might#still not make eye contact even if it's expected of them because of things like autism. I'm one of those people#so in America my body language gives off hostile guilty vibes to most people when I'm just... chillin.#but perhaps you remember certain times when your guesses about someone were spot on#have you kept track of exactly which things you were right about and who the subjects were and where they were from etc?#if so what patterns have you noticed in the kinds of people you guessed right on? were they from your locale?#most importantly what's your actual rate of accuracy? how do you prevent implicit bias from affecting your predictions?#and how do you know that confirmation bias isn't making you Feel more accurate than you are?#if you were actually wrong... how would you know?#i could link a dozen studies on the accuracy of profiling if you want. the whole practice is rife with pseudoscience
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