Your first paragraph here seems completely unnecessary. Your next paragraph walks back the claim I thought you were making about "cultivated" rationality. If you just used the wrong word before, that seems understandable, but you shouldn't get snippy when people can't read your mind.
The paragraph beginning "Sounds false" seems so ungrammatical that I can't tell what it means other than 'Science good.'
Your first paragraph here seems completely unnecessary.
I disagree. Strongly. LW-ers in general need to recall that a linguistically phrased statement is not "more wrong" by nature than a mathematically phrased one -- especially when the topic itself does not lend itself to such a thing. (Though not a direct correlation this maps well to the notions of Fake Utility Functions.)
Made up numbers are worse than 'vague' -- they are counter-productive: they "prime" the reader (and the writer) towards specific subsets of the available space...
Encountered at: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/click-and-weep/scientific-literacy/