These forums remind me of the bicycle-shed effect

It’s mathematical fact. The top 1% is the top 1% by definition.

Thank you for reading.

Also a mathematical fact: Differences around the mean are small. It’s the tails where the biggest differences are.

The first fact was a fact i used in my answer and the second fact…yeah its correct but you are still dodging again. politics in eu (even within eu states obviously) are nothing alike compared to US.

Wrong. Your argument was obliterated by basic mathematical fact. Politicians can’t cater to intelligent people because they are by definition a small minority.

HAHA :smiley: yeah like i said in my previous answers. “you just pick something (maybe even the tiniest thing) and try to counter it and then claim the whole point is false.”

dude. do you even know that there are other political systems? there are political systems where there are like 7 bigger parties who can support each other in order to win and form the senate. So yes in that case its completly ok to cater the rather educated minority plus the ones who are well educated but not as well as the high educated. you know? upper middle class plus upper class. so populist morons like trump will get sorted out because the lesser educated half cant form majority unless there are huge political instabilities.

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The same to you. 1234

:smiley: so you have nothing left to say to my argument which completly destroys your point of politicians neglecting higher educated?

In Australia, we grade our politicians by their ability to scull beers. RIP Bob Hawke

It’s the truth. Do you know who said this:?

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be “the man in the street.” Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

The authorship removes nothing from the power and truth, on the contrary, said by a master in that department makes more true.

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The inability to understand a basic bell curve is not a valid argument. Even if we assume that the US population is dumber on average than the rest of the world, it doesn’t change the fact that on average differences in intelligence are small - it’s in the tails (top 1% / bottom 1%) where there are large differences and by definition there will be no appreciable difference between a US politician and others because politicians cater to the average (which by definition have small differences).

You still are on that argument? that got nothing to do with the statement at hand. so because of political systems arent alike you cant just say politicians dont care about higher educated ppl. so yes. you just did as i said. you say my statement cant be true because of “i dont understand bell curve”. oh god :smiley:

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So? care to explain how my argument of different parties is invalid? Riding on things that got nothing to do with the topic is your second name ay?

ay btw “Even if we assume that the US population is dumber on average than the rest of the world, it doesn’t change the fact that on average differences in intelligence are small” being dumb and being uneducated are 2 very different things. i never said something about smart people :stuck_out_tongue:. using batz card against batz: its super effective.

You really should be questioning how policies can target intellectuals in the first place… Maybe if Donald trump said they were going to ban online forums that might anger tehbatz :wink:

Here’s kevin Rudd (ex-Australian PM) wanting more trump rhetoric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DYvwhUIlGA

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Nice way to praise yourself. Unfortunately, I rarely met inteligent person who calls himself inteligent.

So, that’s why Terran keeps getting buffs. Blizzard is just playing politics.

You apparently missed the part about how it’s a bad strategy IRL.

Nice 20 char 1234567

It’s not quite that he’s unintelligent. He’s somewhat bright, though not nearly as much as he likes to think, but utterly devoid of reality, with zero ability to accept criticism, nor the possibility that he might be wrong.

Yesterday, he tried “catch me at a lie” about being a pilot. He issued a challenge, one which he didn’t know nearly enough about the source material to even issue.

I schooled him very handily. Could he simply accept a gracious defeat? Just say a simple “okay, obviously you’re a pilot.” If he had, I might have been forced to reconsider some of his more other off-the-wall hypotheses.

But no. Not a chance. He doubled down on being wrong. Answering questions no one asked, telling me there was no way I was a pilot, calling maps “FAA flight manuals” (whatever that means, FAA isn’t a flight school, it’s a flight regulations agency) and all other kinds of ridiculously ignorant crap.

It’s not stupidity, not quite. It’s more like arrogance at displaying the most mediocre levels of intelligence. It might be that he’s a 110 IQ person surrounded by people who are 85 on average his whole life.

Most college educated people find people of 120 IQ or lower to be unintelligent, but 120 is well above average (about 85th percentile). It’s almost as if though he’s experience the exact opposite.