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		robonerd on April 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maslow never proposed a pyramid Do a comment search on hn/algolia for both terms. 290 results for pyramid, 1096 for hierarchy. I conclude that the pyramid terminology isn't a strawman completely out of left field, but also isn't representative of the way most people understand Maslow's theory.

txru on April 29, 2022 [–]

In my experience of psychology/sociology classes, the concept is called a hierarchy and depicted with a pyramid.

In practice always accompanying a thing with a metaphor isn't too different from naming the thing after the metaphor.

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