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I am not completely sure I believe that Black Magin Woman was first performed by Feetwood Mac [sic]. And I confess I have no idea what a stop side is. But apparently I was correct to guess that it does not have six sides. And I remain dubious that the Mona Lisa was painted by someone other than Leonardo.
I assumed it was a typo of "stop sign".
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Google will easily convince you of the first two. The last one is speculation.
Google doesn't tell me word one about "Black Magin Woman" and "Feetwood Mac"; or about "stop sides". If it tells you, I feel 100% confident that you are hallucinating. The quiz reliably informed me that I am consistently underconfident.
Did you also communicate to the author that there were many typos in the survey? If not, you probably just deliberately skewed the survey for your own amusement.
I think anyone who has inhabited planet earth for more than 25-30 years or so starts to realize that most of people are either: 1. “Geniuses” of speculation and every topic under the sun (overconfident braggarts that make sweeping claims that are difficult to criticize because they are so general; such dreamers talk big but really have little expertise) 2. People that actually are “deep-knowledge” experts, but only i…
I'm skeptical of any sorting of things into two bins, people or otherwise. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-28 You do have a point though (why I recall decade old comics as conversation pieces and not people's names... sigh) There are a lot of people on "mount stupid", in fact the chance that someone talking about a subject is trapped in the overconfidence of mount stupid is very high. In other words, most o…
I get what you are saying, but let me elaborate it a little bit for fun.
If you project anything into one dimension and define a threshold, you have 2 bins, and you describe it with 1 bit. The fact that you are projecting does not make it an suspicious oversimplification per se.
You can then add more dimensions into study and further classify the part of reality under study, and get more fancy with your bins, but from several points of view, there will be one master bit - that is, you have a classification tree, and a first level classification. So you can for sure talk about 2 bins, irrespective that there are other ways to look at the data, or funny cases near the threshold. So for example it makes sense to talk about people from Fidji vs. people not from Fidji in some contexts, and that should not be suspicious.
So really what we should be suspect is from people who constantly jump to oversimplified models of reality to make grandiose takes on reality without first spending some time in explaining why that dimension dominates over others, why that threshold in particular, and why alternatives are not so useful as this simple model.
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Google doesn't tell me word one about "Black Magin Woman" and "Feetwood Mac"; or about "stop sides". If it tells you, I feel 100% confident that you are hallucinating. The quiz reliably informed me that I am consistently underconfident.
Well, then, you could have communicated more clearly without being deliberately obtuse. Did you also communicate to the author that there were many typos in the survey? If not, you probably just deliberately skewed the survey for your own amusement.
On those questions I put the slider at 50%.
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Well, then, you could have communicated more clearly without being deliberately obtuse. Did you also communicate to the author that there were many typos in the survey? If not, you probably just deliberately skewed the survey for your own amusement.
Which part of "[sic]" did you find obtuse? On those questions I put the slider at 50%.
I am not completely sure I believe that Black Magin Woman was first performed by Feetwood Mac [sic]. And I confess I have no idea what a stop side is. But apparently I was correct to guess that it does not have six sides. And I remain dubious that the Mona Lisa was painted by someone other than Leonardo.
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The stop sign question almost got me, though I was pretty sure it wasn’t six even before I glanced out the window at one.
The question was not about stop signs. I very strongly doubt you spotted a "stop side" out your window. Even if you have a cold.