<p>Actually, TheGFG, your ideas are likely more valuable if you are adding conditionality to your beliefs. You are absorbing the nuance that I was talking about. </p>
<p>But, take a look at the thread about the Op-Ed piece written by a young woman writing, with a fair degree of humor (I thought), in the WSJ about not getting in to the Ivies. As it goes on (and on and on), you’ll see the same posters posting the same things over and over again, somewhat more snidely (though the moderators got involved to cut out certain untoward behavior). Simplistic thinking. No probabilistic reasoning about statements that can only be probabilistic. No learning. Rather disappointing. That’s the kind of thread that will be recycled in spirit or in fact a few year from now.</p>