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To: conimbricenses; SpinnerWebb
Double major BA and two postgrad professional degrees. So yeah, I’ve earned the right to say most voters - i.e. most of the general public - are dumb.

Ah, nothing like a little self righteous posturing from one of my betters to start my day.

Oh, you're done ... then piss off.

131 posted on 03/03/2010 6:04:21 AM PST by tx_eggman
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To: tx_eggman; conimbricenses
I agree, eggman, with conimbricenses, that at least 50% of the general public are less than average. I'm not convinced, however, that conimbricenses knows on which side of that median line he falls...

Statistician's Blues
Todd Snider

They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain
97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain
I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime
99 percent think we're 3 percent 100 percent of the time

64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not
I don't know what you believe but I do know there's no doubt
I need another double shot of something 90 proof
I got too much to think about

Too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about

They say 92 percent of everything you learned in school was just bullshit you'll never need
84 percent of everything you got you bought to satisfy your greed
Because 90 percent of the world's population links possessions to success
Even though 80 percent of the wealthiest 1 percent of the population Drinks to an alarming excess
More money, more stress

It's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
Pick it now

84 percent of all statisticians truly hate their jobs
They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs
There's this little bank not far from here I've been watching now for a while
Lately all I can think about's how bad I wanna go out in style

And it's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
That's right
It's too much to think about
Amen
It's too much to think about
134 posted on 03/03/2010 6:36:48 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: tx_eggman

Self righteous posturing? No. Math-boy made a blusterous post demanding my professional qualifications and I simply obliged. Doing so has little effect upon my original point about the majority of the electorate being dumb. Note that I did not specifically include *you* or anyone else in that observation, though several have since provided ample reason why they should have been.


138 posted on 03/03/2010 7:39:42 AM PST by conimbricenses
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