Laundry Detergent as a Pyschological Measure
As most of you are aware by now, i study psychology and hope to major in it. Although i think most psych majors are only in the course cos they are mentally unstable in the first place. I have a test on thursday and am mostly memorising personality theories at the moment.
Since everyone seems to know about Freud, let me just clarify that Psychology is NOT abt Freud. He is still studied because he was the first person to take an interest in human nature and tried to study it systematically. Psychology nowadays does NOT employ a lot of his dream interpretation and repression association methods but many still think Freud is an intellectual who tried to contribute to science. Its really irritating once you say you study psychology and ppl just mention Freud. Basically i have only read 2 chapters on him for 4 semesters of studying.
As most ppl love to mention, Freud was obsessed with sexual repression and how dreams actually were signs of unconcious mechanisms. Which personally i dont think that is high on external validity as well as not very useful practically. Unless you were Joseph and had God's help.
However, i think looking at laundry detergent can tell loads about a person and groups of people. During the first 3 weeks of washing clothes i realised there were just one or 2 ppl who left their washing detergent in the laundry room, which is rather far down in the basement. By the 6th week though, there were like 30 bottles on the shelf. Which tells a lot about frustration and imitation of other people's behaviour. For me, i put mine in a cupboard in the laundry room, just to be slightly different from the norm. Which shows that i am lame and irrelevant, but you already know that. In fact, i was being considerate because the shelf looks a lot like its going to break under the strain of heavy bottles. Dont believe me?
I shall prove that i always think ahead. When i went to the supermarket/pharmacy to buy this bottle of blue washing liquid, the 5litre bottle was only $1 more than the 3litre bottle. So being the true blue singaporean that i am, i of course bought the 5litre one. It was only recently that my friend from UWA, jason, who i kindly agreed to share detergent with because he felt it rather heavy lugging back his own from the city, pointed out that the bottle states "for 56 loads". Which is only a little more than i need for the 14 weeks i shall be in canada. I mean, if we both wash TWICE a week, we could make up 56 loads exactly. See, my calculations are so accurate you cant help but think i am incredibly logic motivated and an excellent critical thinker. This therefore, is a good psychological measure of intelligence and forward thinking.
Now all we need is experiments testing the type of people that buy powder and the types that buy liquid, because personally i think people who prefer liquid are those more methodical and neat types that dont like to clean the mess that powder makes. Which means washing powder ppl are the artsy type that likes contemporary musuems cos the colour in some of these powders are truly abstract. Its just for different kinds of things you wish to wash, you say?? Who are you trying to kid man? I have great cognitive abilities remember, wake up! Your theory is obviously erroneous. Simply consider this: I dont think about what i am going to wash before i buy the detergent, do you?
Since everyone seems to know about Freud, let me just clarify that Psychology is NOT abt Freud. He is still studied because he was the first person to take an interest in human nature and tried to study it systematically. Psychology nowadays does NOT employ a lot of his dream interpretation and repression association methods but many still think Freud is an intellectual who tried to contribute to science. Its really irritating once you say you study psychology and ppl just mention Freud. Basically i have only read 2 chapters on him for 4 semesters of studying.
As most ppl love to mention, Freud was obsessed with sexual repression and how dreams actually were signs of unconcious mechanisms. Which personally i dont think that is high on external validity as well as not very useful practically. Unless you were Joseph and had God's help.
However, i think looking at laundry detergent can tell loads about a person and groups of people. During the first 3 weeks of washing clothes i realised there were just one or 2 ppl who left their washing detergent in the laundry room, which is rather far down in the basement. By the 6th week though, there were like 30 bottles on the shelf. Which tells a lot about frustration and imitation of other people's behaviour. For me, i put mine in a cupboard in the laundry room, just to be slightly different from the norm. Which shows that i am lame and irrelevant, but you already know that. In fact, i was being considerate because the shelf looks a lot like its going to break under the strain of heavy bottles. Dont believe me?
I shall prove that i always think ahead. When i went to the supermarket/pharmacy to buy this bottle of blue washing liquid, the 5litre bottle was only $1 more than the 3litre bottle. So being the true blue singaporean that i am, i of course bought the 5litre one. It was only recently that my friend from UWA, jason, who i kindly agreed to share detergent with because he felt it rather heavy lugging back his own from the city, pointed out that the bottle states "for 56 loads". Which is only a little more than i need for the 14 weeks i shall be in canada. I mean, if we both wash TWICE a week, we could make up 56 loads exactly. See, my calculations are so accurate you cant help but think i am incredibly logic motivated and an excellent critical thinker. This therefore, is a good psychological measure of intelligence and forward thinking.
Now all we need is experiments testing the type of people that buy powder and the types that buy liquid, because personally i think people who prefer liquid are those more methodical and neat types that dont like to clean the mess that powder makes. Which means washing powder ppl are the artsy type that likes contemporary musuems cos the colour in some of these powders are truly abstract. Its just for different kinds of things you wish to wash, you say?? Who are you trying to kid man? I have great cognitive abilities remember, wake up! Your theory is obviously erroneous. Simply consider this: I dont think about what i am going to wash before i buy the detergent, do you?
posted by efarmer at 11:25:00 AM
2 Comments:
bah haha! never knew the kind fo detergents we use are related to our personalities.. there's element of truth in some of them lah .. heh not bad.
hey.. just wondering, do you intend to practice psychology? if so, what kind? where (s'pore/overseas)?
u calculated the no. of loads u're going to use??? hahha. really irrelevant. haha.
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