(urth) interview questions

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 13:16:01 PST 2011


Lee Berman wrote:
> Dan'l Danahy-Oakes:
>> This is a forced and false dichotomy. It is possible for Gerry to
>> believe you are wrong without believing you are stupid.
>
> I disagree. When you tell someone else they are wrong it means you either think they are:
>
> 1. ignorant- i.e. they do not have access to the full range of information necessary
>
> or
>
> 2. stupid- i.e. they do not have sufficient brain power to use the information correctly

But that's spantastically wrong. Reasoning is a complex process with many 
more inputs than just the data and more mechanisms than just intelligence. 
There is no reason to suppose that calling you wrong is automatically an 
attack on your data or your intelligence.



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