{"id":8092,"date":"2022-03-12T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2024-02-01T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:42:24","slug":"narrative-psychology-inequities-and-the-need-for-comparatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/narrative-psychology-inequities-and-the-need-for-comparatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Psychology | Inequities and the Need for Comparatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in narrative psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there was only one thing in the entire universe, and we saw no difference; it was homogeneous \u2014 well, there would be no inequity.\u00a0 But, it wouldn\u2019t necessarily be positive then, because there would nothing really.\u00a0 It would just be one thing, and since there\u2019s one thing, you couldn\u2019t compare it to anything.\u00a0 And since you can\u2019t compare it, you can\u2019t measure it \u2014 and since you can\u2019t measure it, you can\u2019t evaluate it.\u00a0 You don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s good or bad, it has no meaning.\u00a0 It\u2019s only when we sub-divide and have at least two things to measure between, that we can say, O.K. in measuring these two things, the fact that they are different is a good thing, or the fact that they are different is a bad thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the entire transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/deep-narrative-theory-dramatica-class-1-7-1995\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in narrative psychology. If there was only one thing in the entire universe, and we saw no difference; it was homogeneous \u2014 well, there would be no inequity.\u00a0 But, it wouldn\u2019t necessarily be positive then, because there would nothing really.\u00a0 It would just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-dramatica-theory","category-narrative-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-26w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}