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SYNDROMES LUMP vs. SPLIT CLASSIFICATION
PROCRUSTES
PROCRUSTES
~ PROCRUSTEAN id+ | ONE SIZE FITS ALL | ~ PROCRUSTES id+ | IMPOSITION OF A FALSE STANDARD | notions rooted in myth> PROCRUSTES WAS THE SON OF POSEIDON AND BECAME ONE OF MANY VILLAINS DEFEATED BY THESEUS HE HAD AN IRON BED AND MADE HIS VICTIMS LIE ON IT TO MAKE HIS VICTIMS FIT THE BED THOSE TOO SMALL HE STRETCHED THOSE TO LONG HE CUT THEIR FEET PROCRUSTEAN NOW CONVEYS THE ABOVE MEANINGS AS WELL AS THE id+ |CRUELTY | med> THE NOTION TO DISREGARD INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IS A PERPETUAL CONFLICT DURING CLASSIFICATIONS OF MALFORMATION PATTERNS OR DYSMORPHOLOGY LUMP OR SPLIT IS OFTEN AN ARBITRARY DECISION WHEN THE CAUSE OR ETIOLOGY OF A MALFORMATION PATTERN IS UNKNOWN "LUMPING" MAY FORCE FITTING AN OBSERVATION INTO A FALSE CATEGORY AND "SPLITTING" MAY OBSCURE VARIABLE IMPACTS OF A CAUSE OR ETIOLOGY IN COMMON ERRORS OF EITHER KIND DELAY MEDICAL SCIENCES PROGRESS sc> PROCRUSTEAN SOLUTION IMPLIES MAKING DATA FIT A PRECONCEPTION or HYPOTHESIS med> ASIDE FOR BLATANT FALSEHOOD MANY SCIENTISTS HAVE NO TRUST IN OFFICIAL DATA ON RADIATION RISKS COMPILED BY THE IAEA - INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY AND PREVIOUSLY BY GOVERNMENT FUNDED HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI STUDIES 20170709 ww |