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01-20-2017, 11:05 AM
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#166
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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Easy solution.
Stop being a wack a doodle.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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03-12-2017, 09:26 PM
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#167
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NoPoints4ME
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 9,854
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
I've been getting questioned a lot lately...
People think I favor Tom because he's conservative... people think I favor Dahoss because he hates EMD...people think I hate Dahoss because he reveals a huge "secret" that I can read private messages if I want to (NEWS FLASH, I've posted on this board multiple times that as owner, operator and possessor of the database, of course I have the ability to read private messages if I want to go through the trouble of doing that...it's not all that easy as opening a thread, but I would think a halfway intelligent person would assume I have access to private messages since this is my website)...
In short, there has been a lot of questioning of me lately, and it's getting a bit ponderous...sorry if I came off a little over the top.
I do the best I can...I try and remain consistent...am I perfect? Hell no. Are there some good months, bad months...good years, bad years around here? Hell yes... 
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Wait...
Dahoss doesn't like me?? 
 (I miss you Dahoss, sincerely.) I hope you're detention, sabatical, ban ends soon. I miss our "debates".
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03-12-2017, 10:17 PM
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#168
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Denver
Posts: 4,163
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I don't know how long it will last, but I'm on such an incredible high, I'm not sure even boxcar and Spalding teaming up would get me irritated.
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03-13-2017, 02:41 PM
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#170
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: North Riverside, Il.
Posts: 16,075
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Originally Posted by jimmyb
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What a moronic article. This "fair" writer thinks that because Leo DiCaprio has a private plane, there is no global warming. He thinks because there is bigotry against gays in Muslim countries, it is okay for Christian bakers to discriminate against gays in the United States. He thinks Muslims are admitted to the US without vetting, when there is an intensive vetting process in place.
He thinks that we are as obsessed as he is over whether Elizabeth Warren has Cherokee blood.
After thirty years, he is still too dumb to see the dangers of smoking.
He has an irrational fear/hatred of Chelsea Clinton.
He thinks anyone cares what Sean Spicer says, much less when he says it.
He thinks Benedict was the greatest pope ever.
He thinks Breitbart, Hot Air, and Infowars are on the level.
He thinks abortion and school vouchers are equivalent. (here's a clue-abortion affects only the person having the abortion. School vouchers take money away from public schools and give it to private schools. Therefore they affect all the students attending those public schools-in a negative way. School vouchers are a public subsidy of private schools.)
He does not understand that climate change could cause both higher temperatures and storms in the Arctic and at the same time.
He does not understand gender identity issues, thinks that normal hetero sexual males will want to change in a ladies locker room or restroom, and believes that sex offenders will be allowed in those same rooms without question. In other words, he is an idiot.
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03-13-2017, 03:36 PM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
Posts: 88,455
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That's not what the writer was writing or thinking at all...you should re-read the piece again...someone such as yourself, who prides himself in his reading comprehension abilities, really blew this one.
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03-13-2017, 04:02 PM
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#172
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: donkeys ride from ASD
Posts: 13,000
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I feel bad for arguing with Mostie, I never knew he had a comprehension disability.
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03-13-2017, 05:11 PM
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#173
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Denver
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Interesting story on Here and Now. One National Security Professor Alarmed By 'The Death Of Expertise'
You can listen to it here.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow
I'm not sure how many people on the board will recognize themselves, but I'll bet they will recognize the "other guys" who fit the story.
"I fear we are moving beyond a natural skepticism regarding expert claims to the death of the ideal of expertise itself: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laypeople, teachers and students, knowers and wonderers — in other words, between those with achievement in an area and those with none."
While I hesitate to bring it up, I thought it was pertinent to the discussion, although clearly not pertinent to anyone here.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive incapacity, on the part of those with low ability, to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their competence accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: high-ability individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.
I believe the ultimate point is that whack-a-doodle applies to liberals, conservatives - pretty much everyone, although most of them don't recognize it.
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03-13-2017, 05:15 PM
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#174
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Denver
Posts: 4,163
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
That's not what the writer was writing or thinking at all...you should re-read the piece again...someone such as yourself, who prides himself in his reading comprehension abilities, really blew this one.
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More likely confirmation bias than comprehension issues.
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03-13-2017, 06:21 PM
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#175
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: North Riverside, Il.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
That's not what the writer was writing or thinking at all...you should re-read the piece again...someone such as yourself, who prides himself in his reading comprehension abilities, really blew this one.
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Enlighten me, because I just reread it and I have the same impression I had before. Perhaps it is you who is not understanding my response.
While I have your attention; what happened to the photo gallery? Am I missing it or is it just gone?
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03-13-2017, 06:24 PM
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#176
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: North Riverside, Il.
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Originally Posted by HalvOnHorseracing
More likely confirmation bias than comprehension issues.
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I am confused by your response. In fact I really have no idea what you are talking about. Can you clarify?
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"When you come at the King, You'd best not miss." Omar Little
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03-13-2017, 07:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Denver
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Originally Posted by mostpost
I am confused by your response. In fact I really have no idea what you are talking about. Can you clarify?
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I assume you googled confirmation bias. What you read from the Boston Herald guy you interpreted through the prism of what you believe about conservatives.
Conversely, what the guy from the Boston Herald wrote confirmed how he sees liberals. What he was saying not only pissed you off, it was clear he was calling liberals stupid, mostly unfairly. However, there are a cadre of people here who read the the story and nodded their heads fast enough to give themselves whiplash. It confirmed what they believe as well.
You are wondering how someone can be so completely off base.
A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.
There I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Do you have an idea what I am talking about now?
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03-13-2017, 07:26 PM
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#178
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 22,619
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Quote:
Originally Posted by woodtoo
I feel bad for arguing with Mostie, I never knew he had a comprehension disability.
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It I only a matter of time until his own illogic overcomes him and he breaks down.
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03-13-2017, 09:40 PM
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#180
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 22,619
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Originally Posted by Clocker
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As long as their reading comprehension is above the grade level they are baby-sitting, that should be good enough.
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