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Which risks does Münsterberg name in Chapter XI, what mechanism does he give for each, and how certain is his wording?

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1916 argument, unmeasured. The chapter names thirteen risks, which this worker groups in four: perceptual (hallucinations), moral (imitation, loss of resistance and moral balance, harm to the young mind, 'psychical infection', unmeasurable weakening of general righteousness, glamorised vice with an appended punishment, suppression of contrary ideas), intellectual (trivialising, simplification and stereotyping caused by wordlessness, wasted lessons) and aesthetic (the commonplace triumphing, derision of the medium as an aesthetic vehicle). Wording ranges from 'may' (19 uses in lines 3746-4071) and 'cannot be overlooked' to 'must be fraught with dangers'; the only statement that a risk cannot be measured is the 'no psychologist can determine' sentence. No risk is tied to a measured case.

1916 argument, unmeasured. The chapter names thirteen risks, which this worker groups in four: perceptual (hallucinations), moral (imitation, loss of resistance and moral balance, harm to the young mind, 'psychical infection', unmeasurable weakening of general righteousness, glamorised vice with an appended punishment, suppression of contrary ideas), intellectual (trivialising, simplification and stereotyping caused by wordlessness, wasted lessons) and aesthetic (the commonplace triumphing, derision of the medium as an aesthetic vehicle). Wording ranges from 'may' (19 uses in lines 3746-4071) and 'cannot be overlooked' to 'must be fraught with dangers'; the only statement that a risk cannot be measured is the 'no psychologist can determine' sentence. No risk is tied to a measured case. Curator qualifications: Thirteen named risks with certainty wording; all unmeasured. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 argument, unmeasured. The chapter names thirteen risks, which this worker groups in four: perceptual (hallucinations), moral (imitation, loss of resistance and moral balance, harm to the young mind, 'psychical infection', unmeasurable weakening of general righteousness, glamorised vice with an appended punishment, suppression of contrary ideas), intellectual (trivialising, simplification and stereotyping caused by wordlessness, wasted lessons) and aesthetic (the commonplace triumphing, derision of the medium as an aesthetic vehicle). Wording ranges from 'may' (19 uses in lines 3746-4071) and 'cannot be overlooked' to 'must be fraught with dangers'; the only statement that a risk cannot be measured is the 'no psychologist can determine' sentence. No risk is tied to a measured case. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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