Posted on 04/05/2020 6:21:44 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats who feel entitled to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism — in fact in their image-oriented minds scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types — those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior — much of what they would classify as “rational” or “irrational” (or some such categories indicating deviation from a desired or prescribed protocol) comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models
They are also prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools and PhDs as these are needed in the club.
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Very good article. Maybe the best of the year. One warning, though: just because you aren’t an IYI doesn’t mean you are right about something.
LOL!
That’s beautiful. I’m stealing it immediately.
Well done.
Right you are...I’m not a scientist, but was taught that at the essence of the scientific method lies the idea that science is NOT settled, but always remains subject to new data from new experiments...
Recall the thankfully short-lived notion from the late 90s that science had learned about all that could be learned about our natural world, and all that remained was to refine our knowledge...Classic example of IYI...
LOL. I thought you were replying to my graphic from the other thread.
Glad I could help on the other :)
Just curious: Which part were you referring to?
“The Intellectual Yet Idiot”
Whenever I hear the word ‘intellectual’ I think of this quotation, attributed to George Orwell:
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
STE=Q
Accredited Incompetence.
Perfect.
Off the cuff. I like it too. Fitting. Your lead-in was perfect.
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