Be responsible: Not to live in USA?
People who do not support healthcare reform say people should be responsible and should take care of their health.
Americans "bombarded" with cancer sources: report
Americans are being "bombarded" with cancer-causing chemicals and radiation.
What is the most responsible action? Not to live in USA?
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
Be responsible: get an education and stop embarrassing Latin America.
Hope is the denial of reality
While I agree this is a stupid thread based on stupid logic, that *seems* a little harsh Lokster. You really have no basis to call into question his education, afterall. It could be judgement based, drugs, insanity, etc.
Last edited by EyeKhan; 05-07-2010 at 02:50 PM.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Given his posting history, it's either that or an abnormally low IQ. Though it's likely a combination of the two.
Hope is the denial of reality
I don't think you know how IQ worksan abnormally low IQ
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
He has been brought up in an anti-US environment. He jumps on any article or editorial piece that paints the US in a bad light, regardless of how silly or bizarre or patently untrue that article may be.
Add that background with a small twist ofand you have our lovable little AR.
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
It's a distribution based on the overall population. He's probably half a standard deviation away from the median.
Hope is the denial of reality
Yes Low-key, for some reason I am intimately familiar with Gaussian distributions, among others. I was questioning your use of the word 'abnormal'
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Oh, he's *lovable* now. Yeah.He has been brought up in an anti-US environment. He jumps on any article or editorial piece that paints the US in a bad light, regardless of how silly or bizarre or patently untrue that article may be.
Add that background with a small twist of
Loki must hate you on some level. And also: You've grown arrogant ya fuckin' egg head.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
He's not strong on logical reasoning. That's an education issue.He has been brought up in an anti-US environment. He jumps on any article or editorial piece that paints the US in a bad light, regardless of how silly or bizarre or patently untrue that article may be.
Add that background with a small twist of
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Fuzzy is strong on understatement, however.
You really think so? I always thought logical reasoning was one of the cognitive abilities which wasn't really influenced by education. Like memory - either you got it or you don't, and there's not a whole lot that schooling can do to change that.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I'm pretty sure you can sharply improve your memory over a long enough period of time. Some people might naturally have a better memory than other people, but that doesn't mean it's something that static. Heck, first graders in Russia had to memorize page-long poems, while most American high school students can't manage the same. Ditto for memorizing the multiplication table.
Hope is the denial of reality
True, but it's not something you improve (or not) through "education." Sure, you can train your brain, but it's not "education"/schooling that's gonna make the difference.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
In large chunks of the world, "education" means memorizing a ridiculous amount of useless information.
Hope is the denial of reality
I think this is a skill you can get really good at with some training. If you're stupid, you can't, likely. But if you're reasonably smart, I don't think you have the ability automatically. You have to learn it from somewhere....
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
From memorizing each of kat's stories and being able to relate them to each other.
OK, fair enough.In large chunks of the world, "education" means memorizing a ridiculous amount of useless information.
From everyday life? Sure, someone can probably try to teach logical reasoning and "how to think" or whatever but it seems like this is one of those things you should (and usually do) pick up as a function of surviving to see another day unfold.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Hmm, I wouldn't be so simplistic. I'll ask my wife, but my understanding is that almost every form of "intellect" is fairly plastic, with the caveat that I don't know how rigorously one can test any of that crap. Some kids probably self-teach better, but good teachers pose lots of hypotheticals that a kid needs to reason through. That's above and beyond the three Rs (but goes by the wayside under the exigencies of teaching to tests). As Loki points out, with the regurgitation or rote learning model, you won't get any critical thinking.
All beside the point. It's unwarranted and just mean to call AR a retard. He seems like a nice man, though pretty darned misguided by my lights. It's also elitist.
And, it's incompetent to bobble the definition so badly, maybe even retarded, like a whole half SD from the median.
Misguided elitists are the worst.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Just read that one SD for IQ is only 15%; I thought it was 34%. I'll have to change my estimate to 1.5 SDs then.
Where did you read that it was 34%? In a Kathsung post?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I assumed it was normally distributed around the median.
Where did you read that it was 34%? In a Kathsung post?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...iagram.svg.png
Right. All bell curves/"standard" distributions are normal, but not all "normal" distributions are standard.
It *is* "normally" distributed around the median... but not "standardly" distributed around the median. Or... wait, do I have that backwards? Statistics terminology sucks.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-95-99.7_rule
Hope is the denial of reality
That's the same in a symmetrical distribution. (Supposed the sample is large enough)
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
I think Nessie's problem was your definition of "abnormal."Just read that one SD for IQ is only 15%; I thought it was 34%. I'll have to change my estimate to 1.5 SDs then.
I don't think Low-key much cared
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Holy Roman Empire! Did your spidey senses tingle, that you answered to quickly?
Um
No?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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