Growing-Tip Statistics
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Growing-Tip Statistics
According to Abraham Maslow, Growing-Tip Statistics are statistics derived from a sample of the "good specimens," those who were "psychologically healthy" and "self-actualizing."[1]
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Key Terms
- Abraham Maslow
- Eupsychia Key Figures
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Humanistic Psychology
- Transpersonal Psychology
Notes
Maslow felt that we could get a better idea of Human Potential if we looked at "superior" specimens. The problem with this, I would argue, is that no human has ever grown up in an ideal environment. Even superior specimens suffer neglect of some needs. Really the only way to determine full human potential is to provide environments that satisfy all Seven Essential Needs.
Maslow himself admitted this. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."[2]
Quotes
If I ask the question, "Of what are human beings capable?" I put the question to this small and selected superior group rather than to the whole of the population. I think that the main reason that hedonistic value theories and ethical theories have failed throughout history has been that the philosophers have locked in pathologically motivated pleasures with healthily motivated pleasures and struck an average of what amounts to indiscriminately sick and healthy, indiscriminately good and bad specimens, good and bad choosers, biologically sound and biologically unsound specimens.
If we want to answer the question how tall can the human species grow, then obviously it is well to pick out the ones who are already tallest and study them. If we want to know how fast a human being can run, then it is no use to average out the speed of a "good sample" of the population ; it is far better to collect Olympic gold medal winners and see how well they can do. If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth, or moral development in human beings, then 1 maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral, ethical, or saintly people. [3]
Maslow Index
- Aggridant
- B-Cognition
- B-Needs
- B-Realm
- B-Values
- Being-Guilt
- Big Problem
- D-Cognition
- D-Realm
- Deficiency Diseases
- Diminished Human Being
- Eupsychia
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Index
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Good Chooser
- Good Person
- Good Science
- Good Society
- Good Specimen
- Growing-Tip Statistics
- Hierarchy of Basic Needs
- Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
- Horticultural Model
- Human Diminution
- Human Motivation
- Human Potential
- Humanistic Psychology
- Inner Signals
- Intrinsic Conscience
- Jonah Complex
- Metapathology
- Motivation
- Normalcy
- Normative Biology
- Peak Experience
- Plateau Experience
- Real Self
- Sculptural Model
- Self-Actualization
- Transcending Self-Actualizers
- Transhumanistic
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Footnotes
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.