Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-207.254.224.12-20140717193212/@comment-4091815-20140720015415

Everything - no.

But those things I mentioned can be measured along a continuum.

Data about differences between individuals, like any data, can be collected and measured using different levels of measurement.

Like in Psychology - everyone lies somewhere on a particular personality dimension. They either have certain traits or they do not.

The US Centers for Disease Control seems to get it -

"Health is a human condition with physical, social and psychological dimensions, each characterized on a continuum with positive and negative poles. Positive health is associated with a capacity to enjoy life and to withstand challenges; it is not merely the absence of disease. Negative health is associated with illness, and in the extreme, with premature death."

So I'm still trying to figure out where our disagreement lies - because on the continuum of confidence - I'm at the Very Confident end of the scale.