"Stupid is as stupid does." -- Forrest Gump. -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Wisdom of Crowds posits 4 criteria for a crowd to be "wise": > http://tinyurl.com/mbmnb > Diversity, Independence, Decentralized, Mechanism for aggregation. > > -- Owen > > On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > Couldn't disagree more. Examples of why, in my opinion, the aggregate > > assessment of human intelligence is highly inflated: > > > > > > 1. Bush. Elected. Twice. (Florida vote count issue > > notwithstanding). > > 2. Americans continuing to buy fuel hogging cars even after the > > warning > > supplied by the mid-70's oil crises, which gave clear indication > > of the > > impending global oil supply/demand tip-over point which we are now > > seeing. > > The ensuing 30 years between then and now could have intelligently > > been > > spent planning to prevent today's current oil market "crises". > > 3. General Motors, Ford: Instead of planning for the inevitable > > evolution > > of the petroleum-based market pricing realities, they continued > > along their > > stupid short-sighted plan of producing the fuel hogs that their > > stupid > > customers craved, instead of planning ahead for today's market, in > > which GM > > lost more than $15 billion this year. Ford was right behind, > > losing $9 > > billion. There is now serious talk of GM facing bankruptcy as a > > direct > > result of their less-than-intelligent management leadership. > > 4. The Democratic party. > > 5. The Republican party. > > 6. Congress. > > 7. White supremacists. > > 8. Jerry Fallwell. > > 9. Jerry Fallwell's followers. > > 10. Fundamentalists (Christian, Muslim, Mormon: doesn't matter) > > > > I could go on, but it would be stupid to do so... > > > > -- > > Doug Roberts, RTI International > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 505-455-7333 - Office > > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ann Racuya-Robbins > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > >> II would say that the intelligence of most > >> people is grossly underrated. > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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