Posted on 11/24/2006 2:47:27 PM PST by occu77
The Royal Society (RS) announced yesterday that we may all know a lot less about a lot more than we ever thought we did as humans.
A total of 1.5 million pages and 250,000 trillion articles will be available electronically to technologists. A new joint study by the Royal Society in Halifax, the California Polytechnical Institute, and the University of Pittsburgh in New Brunswick has found that people who have been publicly educated using high technology are likely to be twice as not as they are smart. This backs up several soon to be conducted prior studies which disclose disturbing trends in relational statistical models of projected non-intelligence on the part of those who consider themselves otherwise. This new study, using a brand new computer model just created should be able to conclusively demonstrate that a computer model is exactly that. The evidence is indeed compelling because even if the computer model were somehow wrong, an incredible assumption indeed, then the whole project would still be on computer and therefore would of course be self-correcting. That's the way computers work.
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"trillion" articles??? I think they're exaggerating just a tad.
"has found that people who have been publicly educated using high technology are likely to be twice as not as they are smart."
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You had me at likely............... what?%$#&%$@%$@%$@%@
Soon we will do nothing but forward messages.
Excuse me?
Wow, that is hard to parse. I would have to say that it means "twice as not (smart) as they are smart." Hmmmm....are people educated in other ways three times as not as they are smart, or only as not as they are smart?
And that University of Pittsburgh in New Brunswick -- did Pitt open a branch campus in New Brunswick (Canada? New Jersey?), or did it merely send a team of researchers there?
I'd say it is more likely to mean "twice as stupid as they [think they] are smart", but this is a serious interpolation on my part.
Word salad. Reads like a failed effort at machine generated natural language circa 1979, or a failed machine translation circa 2006.
Once, for the fun of it, in the graduate school we had a sort of a competition in purposefully creating such mishmash. It was restricted to the native speakers, to avoid giving unfair advantage to the foreign students. The idea was to create the most atrociously meaningless but still funny text. The sentence under discussion would have been in contention.
Satire, "where is thy sting?"
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