What questions can you identify and why do you think they are important? In the video “Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People”, Dr. Buckwalter states, “Psychometrics is the process of applying numbers to human behaviors. So when we know that as people we have traits, like intelligence and openness. We have to be able to measure these emotions. This leads into the systematic process in which you have to hypnotize something that exists, collect evidence of how it exists internally, and how it relates back to other constructs that you hypnotized” (“Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People,” 2017). Moreover, this statement is important because in the views of Plato and Socrates both shared the …show more content…
Buckwalter. However, before we expand on this statement, we first have to define what rationalism and ethics is. “Rationalism is any view appealing to intellectual and deductive reason as the source of knowledge or justification.” (“The Basics of Philosophy,” 2008). “While ethics is concerned with questions of how people ought to act, and the search for a definition of right conduct and the good life” (“The Basics of Philosophy,” 2008). In sharing common ideals, Dr. Buckwalker suggests that “The study of psychometrics is of interest academically, but pursuing practical applications. Moreover, the idea according to Dr. Buckwalter is to give people more insight about themselves so they can change their behavior. He suggested, for example, that people struggling with credit can learn to spot detrimental behaviors and triggers to improve” (“Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People,” 2017). Plato would question whether the true forms of psychometrics were immaterial things known only through thought and not our sense? If so, is the essence of psychometrics