I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
How about a similar related paradox?
ReplyDeleteStatistician Douglas Hubbard regularly advises public sector agencies and private corporations on "decision analysis".
In his conversations, he is amazed to find that a very large number of public sector workers see the private sector as the beacon of efficiency and the public sector as a pit of ineptitude and failure.
And when he speaks to executives in private businesses, he finds they often wish they were like the military or other government-based departments in their analyses and achievements.
Race?
ReplyDeleteStaten Island has bigger white population.
Than my neighborhood? (I am comparing SI to my neighborhood, not to Brooklyn.)
DeleteIn any case, I think everyone of these liberal entrepreneurs that I know is white.
Another paradox: America's most successful private schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.) tend to be more liberal than your average state school.
ReplyDeleteI saw a gay couple at Chick-fil-A today.
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