I disagree. A theoretical exact middle is a single point within the n-dimensional space that describes mindset. In reality, there’s a pretty wide swath of what’s considered “normal”; it occupies a volume in that n-dimensional space.
I interpret it as the “average man” phenomenon. If you take all of the “average” measure for a man in all aspects, you’ll find that what you get barely resembles human. To me, that’s the same effect the OP is getting at. Someone falling into the “normal” range on absolutely every single metric would be kinda weird, and probably its own abnormality.
Without knowing much about psychology, I would imagine separating the mindset into a set of orthogonal axis is pretty difficult and certainly the normal range would probably not follow a normal distribution in each axis. As a result the N-dimensional volume would not be a N-sphere but some complex topological shape. Possibly even consisting of multiple disjointed sets. If any of these assumptions are true then the global point average over the entire space may lie outside many of the “normal” ranges.
I disagree. A theoretical exact middle is a single point within the n-dimensional space that describes mindset. In reality, there’s a pretty wide swath of what’s considered “normal”; it occupies a volume in that n-dimensional space.
Ok, there WAS that one guy, but he died in the 80s.
I interpret it as the “average man” phenomenon. If you take all of the “average” measure for a man in all aspects, you’ll find that what you get barely resembles human. To me, that’s the same effect the OP is getting at. Someone falling into the “normal” range on absolutely every single metric would be kinda weird, and probably its own abnormality.
Without knowing much about psychology, I would imagine separating the mindset into a set of orthogonal axis is pretty difficult and certainly the normal range would probably not follow a normal distribution in each axis. As a result the N-dimensional volume would not be a N-sphere but some complex topological shape. Possibly even consisting of multiple disjointed sets. If any of these assumptions are true then the global point average over the entire space may lie outside many of the “normal” ranges.