How To Analyze People On Sight - The Original Classic Edition (1921) - Plot & Excerpts
Aside from the blatant racist, sexist, and Eurocentric pseudoscience put forth in this terribly outdated book, it reads like some of the old "how to be a better house wife" books of the '40s or something. It's dry, poorly organized, and patronizing. Benedict's theories completely lack falsifiability, rendering them scientifically invalid. She also fails to acknowledge socio-cultural factors in favor of basing all behavioral assumptions off biology. For anyone who does not fall COMPLETELY within her "Four Types", by the logic in this book you're mistaken about yourself. This book is mildly amusing in the way reading old articles written in defense of slavery are mildly amusing: there is hilarity in their absurdity. If you read this book, take everything written in it with an entire pillar of salt, most likely along with an aspirin and dry sense of humor. This book have more haters than lovers, perhaps people hate to be identified in certain patterns, behavioral or physical ones. The book allows you to understand yourself, your nature, as a social human being, and your environment. The author of the book divided people into certain categories based on their physical appearance and connected it to habits and behaviors. According to some people, it seems absurd to judge the book by its cover; however, is this case, the cover is your skin, fat, bones, wrinkles, facial hair and so on. Those are major clues to analyze and identify the characteristics of humans who roam around you. I, myself, found most of the patterns logical, though the analysis lacks proofs sometimes, but, over all, what the author wrote is real and it exists.
What do You think about How To Analyze People On Sight - The Original Classic Edition (1921)?
Interesting twist on the way we can become even in the slightest bit Holmes' apprentices.
—harry
It was an interesting read. I had to remind myself that this was written in the 20's.
—Yuva
One more perspective of how people could be differentiated.
—Agressor
