Re: Re: [RC] The Great Economic Mess and How We Got There

[David R. Block]

Title: "Remember, to a liberal, anyone who makes money in an endeavor frowned upon by liberals is 'greedy' and any person who express

"Bovine excrement detector" "Tool for measuring the discharge from the North end of a South bound cow" "Bevo excrement detector" (Texas only) Come on, work with me here.... David "Remember, to a liberal, anyone who makes money in an endeavor frowned upon by liberals is 'greedy' and any person who expresses an idea contrary to basic liberal dogma is preaching 'hate.'  How shallow these people are."—Neal Boortz   On 11/23/2011 6:04 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote: Ernie : I like the idea. Something we might work on ? Maybe should be added to RC principles, viz, "Radical Centrism :  Politics based on the Results of Crap Detection "   Must be a better way to say it, but as a general approach.   Billy   -----------------------------------------------------     11/23/2011 3:27:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, drer...@radicalcentrism.org writes: Hi Billy, On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:55 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote: > Fact is, though, there is no substitute for actually knowing a field / discipline. > This means that none of us can be competent in more than , say,  4 or 5 areas. > Maybe a few more if you really work at it, but there are limits The really tantalizing question is whether there is some sort of meta-discipline  -- e.g., "BS detector" -- that it *is* possible to master. That is, we can't possibly know everything, but we can learn to know when somebody lacks credibility. Sort of like Napier's Law for words, not just numbers. I actually think it is possible to come up with a good heuristic, in that it could at least distinguish sloppy reasoning from solid thinking.  Alas, if the heuristic were ever published and widely-adopted, then the cheaters would learn how to hack it.  So if I come up with such a meta-discipline, I'd have to use it rather than talk about it... E -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org