Any thoughts on this?
Dan Gilbert: Happiness: What Your Mother Didn't Tell You
Good video. Thanks.
I've long thought that hidden within one of science's greatest strengths, is one of its greatest blind spots. "N" or number of subjects studied, lends strength to the conclusions in proportion to its increase. The greater the number, the more reliable the data is considered. That's as it should be of course. What that means though is that the data applies more to our species than to any given individual. So it seems to me, and if any of you know otherwise, please catch me up, that while science is a great tool for studying our species, it's almost irrelevant when it comes to understanding the outer reaches of individual capacity, as the weight of which would surely be diminished as ( n ) increases. How often does science do massive studies that have an ( n ) of 1? I've never heard of one. So we know, through science, a lot about the accomplishments and current performances of our species, while having to depend on not much more than folklore for an understanding of individual potential.