That’s in an attempt to appear more “Presidential” by being more boring.
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Reading his Wikipedia page, when endorsing Donald Trump, he said that Trump has “a cerebral side.”
Looking up the original quote, I was disappointed that that wasn’t an exact quote, because coming from a neurosurgeon, that could literally be taken to mean having “half a brain.”
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“Fruit salad of their life” is a very, very complex metaphor rich in meaning, fiber, and nutrients.
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Well, yeah—he’s a doctor.
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B F Skinner made this argument in Walden Two and I tend to agree - but good luck with that in a democracy with an average IQ of 100.
[edit - yes, @nimelennar, I do have a clue about statistics - I suspect I may have been learning the t distribution before you were born. I am guilty of the English thing of making an apparent foolish remark with a straight face and waiting to see if anyone gets it. See my post below for an explanation.
My point, in fact, is that what stops us adopting a rational approach to politics is that, barring a magical equality serum, the people doing the governing will always be more intelligent than the average of the people - and this will lead to resentment.]
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Even if every American were awesomely intelligent in exactly the way that IQ tests measure, wouldn’t they still, by definition, have an average IQ of 100?
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What did Einstein say about being able to explain maths to an 8 year old? I am not laughing; I agree, and it’s one reason sociologists tend not to get taken seriously.
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You mention IQ like it means something, when it really doesn’t. Even if it meant something, it doesn’t mean that high-IQ people are somehow more moral and less emotional than everyone else. That’s crossing over into neckbeard country. Besides, it’s not the low-IQ people you need to worry about, but the people who are sufficiently intelligent but apathetic and willfully ignorant.
Also, if you’re going to bring up IQ, I’m going to have to bring up John Sununu. He has one of the highest IQs ever measured… but he’s John Sununu.
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Am I missing something or was there no headline today saying in giant text :
“Trump LOST!”
Being such a “Winner” that would have hurt right? Even Huff Post is going easy on that headline. Unless, of course, I missed it. Perhaps saving the headline for November…
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Hillary got over the pneumonia. Trump will never get over being a jackass.
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He’ll never get over being a worthless bag of excrement either.
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That’s true. On the other hand, she’ll never get over being Hillary.
Not that I can find, just way too many boxing metaphors.
Note: the link above only displays the current day’s newspaper front pages, so any headlines about the debate will probably be gone tomorrow.
And hes was “wronging” when HRC was saying the Trump claimed that global warming was a plot by the Chinese. Which, of course, he actually did.
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Those sniffles were annoying…he’s been doing it for a while, especially when reading the 'prompter.
Trump was leaking snot out of his…whatever.
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I’m good with that.
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FTFY
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My wife complains I don’t explain myself enough.
The point about a democracy is that everybody gets to vote. Unless the normal distribution of IQ somehow becomes very compressed, no matter where the average lies a small number of people will be very much higher and, obviously, half the population will be of below average intelligence as measured by IQ. Let’s leave aside for one moment what that means.
There is evidence that over the last 50 years or so ability to process symbolic information is gradually increasing. I’m not going into that here because the information is out there if you look for it. But at the same time Western society is getting more complex and issues are getting harder to understand. The result is that a significant part of society is, I think, being left behind. And those people vote. Inevitably no matter where the average lies I suspect that a significant number of people will resent technocracy - and so they will not vote for technocrats (see original post to which I replied).
IQ does mean something; it means the ability to obtain a certain range of scores in different IQ tests. You may feel it doesn’t mean anything but if you measure the IQs of a typical class at Harvard you will get values in the range +2s and up, and if you measure the values of people who didn’t complete high school you will find very few above +1s who don’t have life problems that affect their prospects. SATs, IQ, are quite highly associated with success in our society. They may not “mean anything” but they are significant. Because our society is designed by people with high IQs, it is often difficult to navigate for people with low ones. They make the rules, and they write the rule books with very high reading ages (my wife and I are on a campaign to get the local council to fix its corporate speak website, btw, though we’re getting nowhere).
So, coming back to where I came in, my post isn’t (I think) as idiotic as you thought. I was saying that the problem with democracy is always going to be that the kind of people who get elected as politicians are likely to be sufficiently richer and better at symbolic manipulation than the majority that they will inevitably arouse anger and resentment in a portion of the electorate - and so a purely unemotional, pragmatic fact based politics isn’t ever likely to happen.
Memo to self; must try to avoid smartass posts, leads to extra work in future.
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Given tRump’s penchant for projection, his opponents could make frequent use of “I know you are, but what am I?” on the other hand, if they were so inclined.
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