Today in Abnormal Psychology, Dr. Wardell was lecturing on self-report measures of stress, specifically LCUs (Life Change Units.) Essentially, this is a system assigning numerical values ranging from 1 to 100 to stressful events. It is based around marriage at 50 LCUs and death of a loved one, which comes in at a whopping 100. A person looks at the list, marks down what stressors they have (in what numbers) and totals their score. Scores of 100 and 200 are serious enough; a person who climbs the stress ladder to a score of 300 indicates a 3 in 4 chance of suffering from a serious stress-related health issue in the near future. As Dr. Wardell put it, "to reach this point in the simplest way, a person would have to be married three times in one year and have all their spouses die. At that point they're looking at a serious prison sentence." He added with a smirk, gesturing at the chart, "Which, as you can see, is another 63 points."
Mathematical inconsistencies aside, that was spectacular.
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So I'm turning on the stereo, and I'm turning into fairytales
3 comments:
haha, i get it. took me a couple minutes though.
Hello! I felt compelled to congratulate you, good sir, for you are the only other person who enjoyed The Logogryph enough to list it as a favourite book! Marvellous, simply marvellous.
(I love Gaspereau Press.)
Signed by the author, too! WORD.
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