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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12051)2/15/2006 10:10:44 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541627
 
"otherwise very smart people are not immune from this phenomenon."

Seems to me it's as much temperament as intelligence. Spotting patterns is one of the abilities that intelligent people have. The smarter you are and the more expertise you have the better you are at spotting patterns. But once you expect a pattern to appear, it's easy to perceive everything in the context of that pattern, things that may fit the pattern but also fit other patterns or may be incidental to the pattern. To avoid myopia requires circumspection, intellectual honesty, and good will, which are more a function of temperament than intelligence.



To: Dale Baker who wrote (12051)2/15/2006 10:12:09 AM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541627
 
Proof that this is a strange, strange world:

The Bush admin tortures, lies, creates secret prisons, rescinds habeus corpus, spies on its citizens without warrants, invades a nation that did not provoke us on false pretenses, ignores a drowning city and no one bats an eye.

But the VP has a hunting accident and suddenly everything changes.

What odd creatures we are.

A cultural anthropologist would have a field day with this.


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