From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 21:50:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A2B16A406 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:50:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: from smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.188.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1416813C455 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: (qmail 4352 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 21:23:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=Kgwi1hJdsTzs1P9oYz3yHd5md8TyzwjphN88XWOLLTNMRIBugxlz1ngJ7ZLybaWumeGANKFypEgAb0OyWYzKTPsawwdH6PgLGeGDvyHMfQ7QGBCDzcKkgPaQzqopxOokb9eYlybfU2al7kNg4PQYhgRMGxC5cNUYRpIz0fl1Zbc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO w2fzz0vc03.aah-go-on.com) (thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com@86.134.25.153 with login) by smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 21:23:59 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: YwOB9moVM1mfdZ1_83pObJD4yswWv2TUGiqXJVfdoYbiwmALl7MNFQc1TdWvo0fVTov8swb6wA-- From: Thomas Sparrevohn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:23:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070424182027.33d16b28.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070425195855.GC81828@demeter.hydra> <20070425202147.GA8585@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20070425202147.GA8585@saltmine.radix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704252223.59691.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Cc: Thomas Dickey Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:50:44 -0000 On Wednesday 25 April 2007 21:21:47 Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other > > sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this > > particular brand of intellectually lazy person to realize that about the > > printed page, though. > > I recall reading some interesting comments from studies (second hand, e.g., > in Science News) which stated that people tended to believe things that > were presented in a credible fashion, not questioning them - using the > paper or page as an authority which amplified their own general beliefs > on a topic. > > Aside from the circular referencing that occurs when believing that... > > It's certainly hard to see where/how to decide to stop and question the > authority, given that premise (knowing that one is biased). But it's > perhaps a good habit to get into - observing that reading things that > one already agrees with are perhaps as problematic as those that one > does not. > If there was an easy answer to this quistion most con attists would be out of a job. Even high ranking universities has been known to employ a con man from time to time - so while the discussion is relevant - i don't see any reason that this thread should not be in chat ;-)