Sander deWaal wrote:
"Bruce J. Richman" said:

Why should he be judged by any other standard than anyone else
on
this
group?

Because he uses psychological jargon here.

Yes, but unlike Krueger, McKelvy and Lionel, I'm qualiried to use it
and know what the terms really mean. Krueger, McKelvy and Lionel
have
frequently called people delusional, insane, demented, senile, etc.
They have never given any evidence that they have any qualifications
that even remotely suggest that they know what they are talking
about
when they use these terms.

OTOH, if and when *you* use those words, are we to assume that since
you're qualified to use them in real life because you are a licensed
psychologist, you are able to derive such conclusions based solely on
someone's usenet posts? And that they are more valid than when
another
person uses the same terms?


As I've made clear many times, my comments refer only to a person's
online behavior. Since I haven't observed their offline behavior, I can
only speculate about what it might be. Of course I'm more qualified to
use these terms, because of my training and professional background.


I don't know if my assumption that you're posting here as just
another
person is correct then.

Either you post here as Bruce Richman, a private person, or you post
here as Dr. Bruce Richman, Licensed Psychologist.


The 2 are inseperable, and in my view this is a false dichotomy. As
you well know, there are several individuals here on RAO that claim
becasuse they have an engineering background or have published
something to do with audio, that they are more qualified than others to
talk about certain things. They make no effort to separate their
vocational activities and/or experience from their online posting
opinions. Similarly, I'm more qualified to talk about abnormal
behavior and psychological subjects in general than other people here
because of my clnical background and training. It is unfair to axpett
a psychologist to not draw on his training, while simultaneously
overlooking the fact that others constantly try and throw their
"engineering" or "book" background in the faces of those that they
attack. (No, I'm not referring to you, Sander ). If I understand
you correctly, you'll agree that everybody can use their background as
they see fit, and should not be expected to divorce themsdeleves from
that when posting to RAO.





I get the feeling I'm missing something here, or I just stepped into
a
hornet's nest............



See above.

Let me give you an example of the irresponsible misuse of terms by
people not qualified to use them at all. Lionel has called me senile,
as part of his routine flamethrowing babble routine. If he believes
this, then he is clearly delusional, in the clinical sense, since theee
is no evidence to suggest that anybody posting to RAO is senile. (Oh,
and for the record, Licensed Psychologists evaluate senility in others
as part of legal proceedings in which elderly people sometimes have to
have a guardian appointed to hande their financial and medical
decisions because they are "incompetent" (legally speaking) to do so
independently. OTOH, if he is just tossing out an insult in his usual
mindless, robotic way, then he is displaying his ignorancre about what
the term really means. It's highly unlikely that a senile person can
post to an Internet NG, given the fact that most have short-term memory
deficits and can't remember recent events. That would include an
inability tot remember what other people had recentely posted. OTOH,
delusions are defined as beliefs of a persistent, psychotic type about
either oneself or others. Lionel has demonstrated that this is part
of his online behavior since he has repeatedly used terms like senile
with no evidence to support his false statement. Psychotic beliefs are
ones that aren't based on reality, nad as indicated above, this is
clearly the case re. Loionel's misuse of terms about which he knows
nothing.



Bruce J. Richman
--
Sander de Waal
" SOA of a KT88? Sufficient. "