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Comment author: SforSingularity 13 August 2009 07:11:15PM 2 points [-]

Physicists asked to evaluate paranormal claims do very poorly, yet they are clearly very brainy.

Reference, please. I defy the implied claim that "Physicists asked to evaluate paranormal claims do worse than the average person". I bet 6:1 against this.

If I had a dollar for every brainy person who'd been gulled because they thought they were "too smart" to require being skeptical...

and if I had a dollar for every average idiot who sleepwalked straight into an obvious scam I would make a lot more money.

Comment author: Annoyance 01 September 2009 01:48:48PM 0 points [-]

If I had a dollar for every brainy person who'd been gulled because they thought they were "too smart" to require being skeptical...

and if I had a dollar for every average idiot who sleepwalked straight into an obvious scam I would make a lot more money.

Those sets are not disjoint.

Comment author: SforSingularity 01 September 2009 02:27:29PM 1 point [-]

I define "average idiot" to be disjoint from "brainy person". Does that sound reasonable?

Of course, I am sure that there are some very clever people who sleepwalked straight into a really obvious scam without even questioning it, but I am making the empirical claim that this doesn't happen as much as it does for people of below average intelligence.

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