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:: I know they referred to it, but they're wrong. They set up a scenario to get the results they wished, and then claimed it refutes the Napoleon complex. By doing so they recreate the Napoleon complex to fit their image instead of studying the complex itself (which does not involve taking mass numbers of big and small groups of people -- what they tested for, and what was intuitively obvious, is that smaller people have learned to refrain more from trying to smash bigger people, for obvious reasons, as in real life situations the results are often not very pleasant.) [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:53, 27 May 2007 (EDT)
:: I know they referred to it, but they're wrong. They set up a scenario to get the results they wished, and then claimed it refutes the Napoleon complex. By doing so they recreate the Napoleon complex to fit their image instead of studying the complex itself (which does not involve taking mass numbers of big and small groups of people -- what they tested for, and what was intuitively obvious, is that smaller people have learned to refrain more from trying to smash bigger people, for obvious reasons, as in real life situations the results are often not very pleasant.) [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:53, 27 May 2007 (EDT)
::: Three things. First - I must be missing something. They found that on average, smaller people remain calmer and less agressive than large people. They didn't just stay less agressive but actually had slower heart rates. So on average people who are small show fewer of the traits classically considered to be part of a Napoleon complex. Now, if Napoleon complexes existed we should see that average brought up, yes? Second, how would you test the existence of Napoleon complexs? Third, peer review seemed to agree that this was a decent test of the existence of the complex. Why is your personal opinion somehow enough to overide that, especially when the addition made clear that the research only "suggested" that this might be the case? [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 10:46, 27 May 2007 (EDT)