The Edinburgh Science Festival this April will analyze Trump's Twitter feed for signs of insanity

[highplainsdem]

NOT from The Onion.

I first read of this in a Rick Wilson tweet:

Link to tweet

From the article in the Herald:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17429714.donald-trumps-twitter-feed-to-be-analysed-at-edinburgh-science-festival/

The Twitter feed of the US President, Donald Trump, will be analysed in a festival discussion over whether social media can be used to judge a person's sanity.

This subject, and others, will be discussed at Scotland's biggest science festival, the Edinburgh Science Festival, which has now launched its 2019 programme.

In the session at the festival, which runs from 6 to 21 April, called 'On the Frontiers of Sanity', Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus, a psychologist, and Dr Raj Persaud, a psychiatrist, will "test how the public make decisions about a politician's mental health by using Donald Trump's notorious Twitter feed."

President Trump's Twitter feed is notable for its high volume of tweets, its instant commentary on US television news or newspaper written stories about him, insults of perceived political rivals, spelling and factual mistakes and frequent use of words written in capital letters.

He is the first US president to use his Twitter feed - which has more than 58m followers - in such a voluble manner, and his use of the social medium often itself leads to news stories, as well as commentary on the President's state of mind.

Other sessions at the festival include analysis of conspiracy theories, in a session called Fake Moon Landings and Other Persistent Conspiracies, with Professor Peter Knight and Professor Robbie Sutton.

-snip-

[RKP5637]

1. Many of us know the answer to that one already!!! n/t

[highplainsdem]

2. Yep.

[Andy823]

3. Yep

Every time he has one of his "rallies" he proves it beyond a shadow of doubt!

[DetlefK]

4. I once did a medical "psychopath" check-list test for Donald Trump...

I tried to be as fair and impartial as possible.

He came thiiiiiiiiis close to classifying as a psychopath.

[RKP5637]

5. He is definitely mentally unbalanced, there is absolutely no doubt. It would be

interesting to give psychological evaluation tests to his supporters. We know the wealthy ones often don't give a damn about the people or the country, only money. ... but the others, I think a fair number of them might be as unbalanced as Trump. Then, others are just assholes, no matter how you try to quantify their behavior.

[dlk]

6. It Will Be a Very Short Festival

[Panich52]

7. In 2017, group of psychiatrists declared him unfit

wrote a book about it:
"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump"
https://t.co/PKuV3NKsMH