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"You can't compare"

Ghost of the dead horse

filling some space
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What kinds of persons more readily compare dissimilar items, trying to find a baseline for comparison, and what kinds of persons more readily state "you can't compare"?

For example, there's the old adage that you can't compare apples and oranges. It's true, they are not exactly similar. Yet they can be compared in terms of nutrients/weight, sales/day etc.
Some people couldn't even compare two apples - they would seem too dissimilar for them to make a fair comparison.
Other people could compare the 16th century kingdom of Sweden to modern day Pakistan.
Yet another bunch of people could compare cornflakes to earthquakes.

Many people readily compare anything to Nazis.

So, what kind of personality traits are connected with the readiness and profiency in comparing two things to each other, and to the statement "you can't compare" ?
 

Il Morto Che Parla

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Anything can be compared provided the particular quality or aspect being compared is valid.

Anything cannot be compared provided the particular quality or aspect being compared is invalid.

For example, you can compare, Ghandi to the Nazis, in the sense that he called upon national pride and history, to rally his people to a mass patriotic cause.

For example, you cannot compare eating apple skin, to eating orange peel.


I think apples are more akin to oranges than Ghandi was to Hitler, yet, in the above examples, the former comparison is valid and the latter is not.
 

metalmommy

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You can compare anything. Any two things share similar qualities. It just depends on how abstract you want to be...
 

Such Irony

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So, what kind of personality traits are connected with the readiness and profiency in comparing two things to each other, and to the statement "you can't compare" ?

You can compare anything. Any two things share similar qualities. It just depends on how abstract you want to be...

I think strong Ne types are more inclined to compare two seemingly very different things.

At the opposite extreme, I think Si/Ti combo is really good at finding small differences between two very similar things.

My brain seems to go both ways and every way in between.
 

sprinkles

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For example, you cannot compare eating apple skin, to eating orange peel.
They are both a-peeling
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bedeviled1

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What kinds of persons more readily compare dissimilar items, trying to find a baseline for comparison, and what kinds of persons more readily state "you can't compare"?

For example, there's the old adage that you can't compare apples and oranges. It's true, they are not exactly similar. Yet they can be compared in terms of nutrients/weight, sales/day etc.
Some people couldn't even compare two apples - they would seem too dissimilar for them to make a fair comparison.
Other people could compare the 16th century kingdom of Sweden to modern day Pakistan.
Yet another bunch of people could compare cornflakes to earthquakes.

Many people readily compare anything to Nazis.

So, what kind of personality traits are connected with the readiness and profiency in comparing two things to each other, and to the statement "you can't compare" ?

Are you talking about tolerence?
 
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