{"id":541431,"date":"2010-04-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/5cd6316bc62dbba1cc8ad06fc1dbc003"},"modified":"2010-04-22T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:00:00","slug":"one-thousand-matter-of-fact-dentists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541431","title":{"rendered":"One thousand matter-of-fact dentists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lexrex\/605143992\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" alt=\"Photo by Flickr user radiant guy. Click for source\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/04\/dentist.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>For some reason, I find this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/765053\">study<\/a> that analysed children&#8217;s drawings of dentists hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>You can almost sense the existential despair of someone who spent months of their life analysing kids&#8217; unconscious representations of dentists to discover they just think of them as the guy with the furniture and a patient.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Children&#8217;s drawings about dentistry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Community Dent Oral Epidemiol<\/i>. 1976 Jan;4(1):1-6.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor D, Roth G, Mayberry W.<\/p>\n<p>Drawings about the dentist at work were solicited from 1,101 children in grades 2, 4, 6 and 8 in an urban school district. A system to classify the contents of these drawings was developed. The frequency of various items occurring in the children&#8217;s drawings was determined. The &#8220;typical&#8221; or most frequent child&#8217;s drawing of the dentist at work was described. This drawing contained a normal dental chair, dentist, a patient in the chair and dental cabinetry or furniture. The picture was a very matter-of-fact representation. Abnormal or bizarre pictures occurred infrequently. A few children drew pictures that did not relate to dentistry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/765053\">Link<\/a> to PubMed entry for study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I find this study that analysed children&#8217;s drawings of dentists hilarious. You can almost sense the existential despair of someone who spent months of their life analysing kids&#8217; unconscious representations of dentists to discover they just think of them as the guy with the furniture and a patient. Children&#8217;s drawings about dentistry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}