Does anyone know if there exist a psychometric scale that measures the personal shallowness/superficiality of an individual when evaluating other's individual traits (age, race, gender, appearance)? This is opposed to a more deep-level approach that focuses on inherent qualities (skills, knowledge, values, perspectives) that are not readily detectable. In other words, does a person judge others mainly on immediate appearance or not.
There are certainly surface- and deep-level perception scales in the OB literature.
You might also consider cognitive variables, such as need-for-closure (NFC) or cognitive miser (heuristical thinking, system-1 tendencies).
Hope this helps,
Matt
Thank you Matt
I have not been able to locate them though. Do you recall any references or names that I can search for?
Best, Jakob
Yes, doing what your criticisers (antagonist control) would want you to do, or doing something that comes first and is greater (protagonist's control).
Generally I find people who are asking questions are wanting a good answer. Whereas people with rigid talking points are wanting an understanding commenter.
Psychometrics, shallowness, evaluating people qualities... the people in a protagonist's control world are wanting an understanding commenter rather than seeking a good answer, and their first basis is against the of judging people with math. The same people take down public mass surveillance. The idea was never to stoop to having the idea of "shallow" - if you can't see into the eyes of your neighbour how can you expect to see into your own eyes.
If however I was forced into playing the game of assuming a basis that resulted in defining shallow, I would hope that shallow would be defined as being measured on how much information it takes to state what is first true, knowing that in a world of ockham's razor, complexity is the ballgame. If someone were to come to me with a textbook load of information on a brand new subject and grant it as a gift, I would be most greatful in exploring, and would value the experience, so too I would value the hearing the right answer not the wrong answer assuming the only limiting factor is time.
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