So, Conservatives not the psychotic ones, after all..

[Dill]

(06-10-2019, 12:15 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Fair enough. I should not have pointed to posts in this thread to point to anyone's mental status. However, it does appear "thou doth protest too much".

The article in the OP was to show flaws in a published finding, but we got caught up in "psychotic versus psychoticism"

The definition I was told to use is " psychoticism states that a person will exhibit some qualities commonly found among psychotics, and that they may be more susceptible, given certain environments, to becoming psychotic." So can we just all agree that Liberal have a greater propensity to become psychotic?

No. We cannot. 

What "we" got caught up in was whether the article claims that political party determines mental stability because "we" read a spun up interpretation from the New York Post.   Terms like LIBERAL and CONSERVATIVE also need a double check here--by determining how they are used in the article, not looking up a dictionary definition.  

Reading the article itself in context of its research field and the problem it specifically addresses is the best way to inhibit projection. Reading news versions of the article and latching onto common terms outside their disciplinary usage only sets one up for failure outside the bubble.