Thread: Confessions of a Book Pirate
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Old 01-31-2010, 05:38 PM   #195
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Hoarding and other compulsive behaviours are actual psychological disorders. Being "disorders", these behaviours are not considered the norm and are comparatively rare in the "real world".
It doesn't matter how common the thing being studied is in general if you're only studying a subset of the population. Consider: smoking crack cocaine is a disorder, not considered normative behaviour, and comparatively rare in the 'real world'; it is, however, extremely common behaviour in crack houses.

When you're talking about how many file-sharers are compulsive hoarders, it really doesn't matter what percentage of the non-file-sharing population are compulsive hoarders. And I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the percentages are much, much higher than the norm in the file-sharing group.
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