Essay talk:Thoughts on libertarianism and ego

We have an article on the Dunning-Kruger effect. - π 04:18, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Two cents

1. Luther was not the pioneer of the institution of the self-ordained prophet; he believed in the magisterium, state churches and (to a limited degree) the apostolic succession. The Puritans and Methodists were more responsible for that "individualistic" approach.
2. Note that there are many who extend their believed authority with respect to interpretation to what many of them believe to be also a divinely-inspired text, namely the Constitution of the Unuted States of America, at least up to the post-{Civil War} amendments. ('Original'ists, for their part, can be agnostic or atheist as to its origins, and in fact deny that they are really doing any sort of interpretation at all, much as a spirit-medium merely conveys the plain words of a more general class of dead people.) (LIES (talk) 16:40, 5 September 2022 (UTC))
3. I understand that there are other areas to computer science beyond the a priori theory based around Turing machines; artificial intelligence, for example.
4. Connecting economic self-sufficiency with epistemological solipsism is a bit of a stretch. ListenerX^TalkerX 05:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Mensa effect

Heh, I like it. I'll plug Keith Stanovich as usual -- he has done a good job at demonstrating that intelligence != rationality. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Looks interesting, especially since my lab rat Eric loves using IQ to justify racism and cutting social spending. EVDebs (talk) 06:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Holy shit, you know a talking rat?! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 06:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh lawd, a scientific racist? Check some of the sources on that page for debunkings, esp. Flynn's work. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

BTW, what kind of lab are you working in where someone can get away with spouting such archaic nonsense? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

The kind where the Roger Clemens effect attaches in an unhealthy manner to people I used to respect who turn out to be complete wastes of DNA. EVDebs (talk) 08:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Roger Clemens effect? Does this involve steroids? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 08:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)