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Happy Valentines Day!
1.? Have you ever heard of the Dunning -Kruge Effect? 2.? Should the constitution of the US be harder or easier to amend? 3.? ?Should the constitution be interpreted in accordance with the thoughts of the writers or current mores? 4.? What one item of foreign aid woul save the most lives worldwide at the lowest cost? 5l.? Should men who want to play on women's athletic teams have to undergo a cliteriectomy? ? |
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Happy Valentines Day!
1.? Have you ever heard of the Dunning -Kruge Effect? I hadn't until I saw an article on it. 2.? Should the constitution of the US be harder or easier to amend? ? Certrainly no easier - harder is a different question,? There were a bunch of frivoius and foolish amendments in the 20th century - I'm not sure that I would be supportive of any of them except the 21st repealing the 18th. 3.? ?Should the constitution be interpreted in accordance with the thoughts of the writers or current mores? With the thoughts of the writers.? Current mores tend to lead to spasms of idiocy - I would prefer to read what the people who wrote the document and the musing of congress with regard to amendments. 4.? What one item of foreign aid woul save the most lives worldwide at the lowest cost? Trick question.? The mosquito net costing less than five dollars could save a half million lives a yar and even more importantly allow tropical and subtropical areas to economically develop with a workforce that is not constatntly sick. 5l.? Should men who want to play on women's athletic teams have to undergo a cliteriectomy? Ys and an orchiotomy as well ? |
开云体育No, but I do know about the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their knowledge or abilities. It's all too common among people who never went to college. No, it's fine the way it is. Both. I'm not familiar enough with the items of foreign aid. I'd have to spend too much time researching to provide an answer. I don't think that's a real procedure of any sort. Aloha, Celeste Rogers |
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Happy Valentine's Day! Back atcha, lover! 1.? Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruge Effect? Not by name until now. I have seen it in action, though, and there is a mention of metacognitive skills in the Google results that seems like it is generally applicable as a probably contributing factor for the phenomenon. 2.? Should the constitution of the US be harder or easier to amend? I think there?are cases in which either direction might be preferable, so maybe it is just right as it stands? 3.? ?Should the constitution be interpreted in accordance with the thoughts of the writers or current mores? It seems designed?to be flexible enough to evolve, so I vote we interpret it with intelligence. 4.? What one item of foreign aid would save the most lives worldwide at the lowest cost? Seeds? 5.? Should men who want to play on women's athletic teams have to undergo a cliteriectomy? Should we spend the evolving Amageddn?discussing sports trivia like it mattered? As I have imperiously decreed before, set up three leagues for every sport: Male, Female and Other. Base qualification for any league?or division on birth gender?for obectivity's sake. Then relegate any related coverage to the bottom of the back page before I start advocating for my dog to be admitted to the women's locker rooms. It is absolutely annoying that we have a double standard in this country under which human?people may use indoor plumbing or tread the allowed halls of the supermarket while my beautiful and loyal canine companion is rudely forbidden entrance and sent to the back of the bus. Apologies?to anyone offended?by my tongue-in-cheek reply, but sometimes I wonder?if we have not somehow?transitioned into a dream wherein ridiculous situations are presented as serious concerns by someone's sleeping subconscious. Why call them "men's" or "women's" teams if we are going to make? them so complex? Why not have an "Athlete's Sports" category in which any participant is surgically and chemically altered to a neutered non-gender and thus all athletes can participate on the golden "level playing field?" Or I suppose?we could just leave it up to whomever is in charge of each sport since those people have chosen to manage?the details. The rest of us could go on to worry about, oh, I dunno...topics related to survival, spiritual?growth, or maybe what TV series to binge next? :) D |
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Celeste said: "...It's all too common among people who never went to college." And Darrell replied: I did not go to college until I was in my 50's and I have since often had this same thought. I was raised in a rural blue collar?culture that idolized the workers as the real foundation of all that was good, the real men and women who did not waste their time with frivolous pursuits like?higher?education. I am sometimes idly curious?how my?life might have looked if I had learned in my 20's the skills and?history I delayed?until middle? age, including?how to look mindfully at my ideas?of me. On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 9:28?AM a1thighmaster via <thighmaster=[email protected]> wrote:
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College has very little to do with whether or not someone has irrational ideas. ? Celeste said: "...It's all too common among people who never went to college."
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And Darrell replied: I did not go to college until I was in my 50's and I have since often had this same thought. I was raised in a rural blue collar?culture that idolized the workers as the real foundation of all that was good, the real men and women who did not waste their time with frivolous pursuits like?higher?education. I am sometimes idly curious?how my?life might have looked if I had learned in my 20's the skills and?history I delayed?until middle? age, including?how to look mindfully at my ideas?of me.
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 9:28?AM a1thighmaster via <thighmaster=[email protected]> wrote:
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But learning to think clearl;y can have an impact. What I meant was that, for some, college encourages thinking skills. On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:28?PM mrvnchpmn via <Chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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Vwet rrue but for the last thirty yeas thinking has deemphasized. Marvin ? But learning to think clearl;y can have an impact. What I meant was that, for some, college encourages thinking skills.
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:28?PM mrvnchpmn via <Chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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On Feb 15, 2025, at 12:13, mrvnchpmn via groups.io <Chapman@...> wrote:
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. 1.? Have you ever heard of the Dunning -Kruge Effect? ? Had heard of the name Dunning Kruger but didn't know what it was. I have observed it however, many times, or something like it. What I have observed is not-very-bright people who think they're the smartest people in the room. Happens all the time. But the description of Dunning Kruger is a little different; it's about specific knowledge, and applies to all of us, in any subject about which we are not well informed.? ? 2.? Should the constitution of the US be harder or easier to amend? ? No opinion. Don't know anything about the US constitution. ? 3.? ?Should the constitution be interpreted in accordance with the thoughts of the writers or current mores? ? No opinion. Don't know anything about the US constitution. ? 4.? What one item of foreign aid woul save the most lives worldwide at the lowest cost? ? Capitalism. Any country with all the qualities and components of capitalism, which includes the rule of law, individual responsibility, individual autonomy, individual ownership, and others (that is, not the semi-capitalism practiced by China) will become prosperous, and nothing saves lives like prosperity. How to give it to them is the question. It takes good governance, and we can't even manage that any more in our own western countries, with our history and tradition of all the qualities needed. ? 5l.? Should men who want to play on women's athletic teams have to undergo a cliteriectomy? ? No. It is not possible. A clitorectomy can only be done on a female, since only females have a clitoris to remove. Men who want to play on women's athletic teams are men, they are not women. They do not have a clitoris. And performing a penectomy or phallectomy (removal of the penis) and an orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) would not help, although it would be good to do on men who want to go into women's dressing rooms, bathrooms and prisons. But it wouldn't help in sports. As soon as a male goes through puberty, he develops the greater size, strength and speed that make competing against women unfair and, in some sports, dangerous. All the surgery and hormones in the world, for the rest of his life, will not significantly change that. Much simpler and more sensible to divide people into teams based on biological sex, not imagined gender "identity". Also dressing rooms, bathrooms and prisons should be divided based on biological sex, not fantasy. A man without his junk could not rape women in those places, but he is still bigger and stronger and faster and could assault them and hurt them very badly. Keep him out. ? Pat ?
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College is just the third phase of K-16.
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On Feb 15, 2025, at 12:13, mrvnchpmn via groups.io <Chapman@...> wrote:
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1.? Have you ever heard of the Dunning -Kruge Effect? ? Had heard of the name Dunning Kruger but didn't know what it was. I have observed it however, many times, or something like it. What I have observed is not-very-bright people who think they're the smartest people in the room. Happens all the time. But the description of Dunning Kruger is a little different; it's about specific knowledge, and applies to all of us, in any subject about which we are not well informed.? ? 2.? Should the constitution of the US be harder or easier to amend? ? No opinion. Don't know anything about the US constitution. ? 3.? ?Should the constitution be interpreted in accordance with the thoughts of the writers or current mores? ? No opinion. Don't know anything about the US constitution. ? 4.? What one item of foreign aid woul save the most lives worldwide at the lowest cost? ? Capitalism. Any country with all the qualities and components of capitalism, which includes the rule of law, individual responsibility, individual autonomy, individual ownership, and others (that is, not the semi-capitalism practiced by China) will become prosperous, and nothing saves lives like prosperity. How to give it to them is the question. It takes good governance, and we can't even manage that any more in our own western countries, with our history and tradition of all the qualities needed. ? 5l.? Should men who want to play on women's athletic teams have to undergo a cliteriectomy? ? No. It is not possible. A clitorectomy can only be done on a female, since only females have a clitoris to remove. Men who want to play on women's athletic teams are men, they are not women. They do not have a clitoris. And performing a penectomy or phallectomy (removal of the penis) and an orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) would not help, although it would be good to do on men who want to go into women's dressing rooms, bathrooms and prisons. But it wouldn't help in sports. As soon as a male goes through puberty, he develops the greater size, strength and speed that make competing against women unfair and, in some sports, dangerous. All the surgery and hormones in the world, for the rest of his life, will not significantly change that. Much simpler and more sensible to divide people into teams based on biological sex, not imagined gender "identity". Also dressing rooms, bathrooms and prisons should be divided based on biological sex, not fantasy. A man without his junk could not rape women in those places, but he is still bigger and stronger and faster and could assault them and hurt them very badly. Keep him out. ? ? ?
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