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According to OkCupid, 10% of women (and 5% of men) believe that the Earth is bigger than the Sun.

Well according to , iPhone users have more sex. Doesn't say if it's straight sex, but it's a pretty significant difference.

Ave. number of sexual partners @ age 30

That image says nothing about how much sex they are having.

Well according to , iPhone users have more sex. Doesn't say if it's straight sex, but it's a pretty significant difference.

> All this means is that you don't know how to teach a person to think.

Then let me rephrase my statement: I've never known anybody who started out stupid and was made smart by education. With some reflection I might be able to come up with examples of the reverse happening. In all the time I've spent in schools of various kinds in two different countries, I could always tell who the dumb ones were, and as time passed, that never changed.

> He found one teacher in New York, who really knew how to work with kids, and also understood math,
> who was teaching first graders advanced math thinking. It wasn't just a few bright kids, it was all her students.

Selection bias, definition problems, etc., etc., etc. And it doesn't matter anyway. Yes, there are a (very) few good teachers out there, but none of it really matters. All a teacher needs to do to be "good" is to cram a certain amount of information into a student's head. Actual thinking is seldom required, and when it is, it is easy to cram a few appropriate algorithms into each head, which is what I suspect really happened in your example. Teachers don't teach thinking; they teach passing the test, because that's all they have time to teach.

Meanwhile, the smart ones will pass anyway, and the dumb ones might get by with a good teacher who knows what to cram into them. After the test, both will forget most of the memorized material with equal ease and move on with their lives. Real learning involving real thinking does not and can not happen in a classroom. You need to want to learn something, and usually you need to need to learn in order to do something else you want to do. Even a scientist doing pure research has some specific goal in mind of what he wants to accomplish - develop a theory of everything, find a new species, send men to Mars, etc. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as learning for its own sake; when you do it, it's called "wasting time". (Not that there is anything wrong with that once in a while...)

People make snap judgments about others. Get over it. That's why you show up for an interview in a suit. That's why you show up for a date bathed and with your teeth brushed.

Actually, I wear what I want to wear to interviews, and have never not gotten a job I interviewed for. Last time, I wore a pink button up shirt, tan corduroy sport coat (albeit Calvin Klein), Levis, and nice dress shoes; it was very sunny so I wore my aviator glasses outside, and had them in my hand or my breast pocket indoors.

Also, I wear what I want to wear to businesses. The genuinely good ones will treat you exactly the same as everyone else, and the others aren't worth my money. I was particularly impressed with Park Place Ltd, a very high end car dealership, for treating me well back when I was checking out the Lotus Elise before it arrived in the states.

The only places where I dress in a fashion dictated by others are places where part of the reason for going is the ambience afforded by a particular fashion -- e.g., nice restaurants, dates, weddings, funerals. Otherwise, it's whatever I want. I have no tattoos, mind you, but I think you're a fucking idiot for trying to perpetuate such close-mindedness and fear of what others think. It's a big world, and thankfully people who are open-minded have a tendency to find each other.

People make snap judgments about others. Get over it. That's why you show up for an interview in a suit. That's why you show up for a date bathed and with your teeth brushed.

Actually, I wear what I want to wear to interviews, and have never not gotten a job I interviewed for. Last time, I wore a pink button up shirt, tan corduroy sport coat (albeit Calvin Klein), Levis, and nice dress shoes; it was very sunny so I wore my aviator glasses outside, and had them in my hand or my breast pocket indoors.

Also, I wear what I want to wear to businesses. The genuinely good ones will treat you exactly the same as everyone else, and the others aren't worth my money. I was particularly impressed with Park Place Ltd, a very high end car dealership, for treating me well back when I was checking out the Lotus Elise before it arrived in the states.

The only places where I dress in a fashion dictated by others are places where part of the reason for going is the ambience afforded by a particular fashion -- e.g., nice restaurants, dates, weddings, funerals. Otherwise, it's whatever I want. I have no tattoos, mind you, but I think you're a fucking idiot for trying to perpetuate such close-mindedness and fear of what others think. It's a big world, and thankfully people who are open-minded have a tendency to find each other.

Reminds me of an old "Life in Hell" where Binky has a choice between being Smart or Happy.