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Sorry to hear your $400 an hour Doctors are not expert in your condition. An expertise you have acquired due to your condition.

You don't say what it is but I would bet it isn't common. You might hope for excellence but unless a Doctor specializes in your condition you are not going to get an expert. Hopefully you will get a Doctor that knows what drugs not to mix (a sensible patient will double check).

The prime definition of stupid is a person of low intelligence. although a thesaurus gives a few alternative words for stupid such as

Boeotian, absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish, boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish, buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie, cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross, gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational, irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit, lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous, lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron, moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead, prosaic,m put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded

Not all of which are applicable to Dr's but I thought you might appreciate them anyway.

The entrance requirements to study to become a Doctor are very high ensuring only the best of the best get to study and qualify. By qualifying a Doctor has proved he or she isn't stupid.
Being competent , knowledgeably with good communication skills that unfortunately has nothing to do with intelligence.

Really all the undergraduate work does is enable you to seek out relevant information and apply it and hopefully achieve a desired end result and occasionally an insightful breakthrough. It also means that you don't have to be a Doctor to become an expert in the field of a particular condition.

I'm fortunate enough to be using a very new drug that has only become available in ireland for about a year, it does mean however that most medical professionals have no knowledge of this drug and how it should be used. Unfortunately that makes me more of an expert with this drug than they are. I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I had to say when I should be injected with this. I don't consider these medical professionals stupid just because they have no knowledge of this drug.

I can appreciate your frustration, Doctors are very reluctant to listen to patients, after all who has the qualification, who gets sued for malpractice. One positive is that Doctors tend to listen to other Doctors having a specialist decide your treatment tends to mean your GP will write the necessary prescriptions.

Please try to be nice to your Doctors they tend to be more willing to help and get help when you don't call them stupid and question their competence.

And back to our original topic , someone who is being treated for depression hopefully would be responding to treatment and not every day would be a bad day. without knowing the whole picture its unlikely that the insurance company will get away with this unless there is no supporting evidence at all of depression.

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Or, if you want to ignore the "M", pick one of these adjectives:

beefheaded, beef-witted, beetleheaded, blear-eyed, blear-witted, blockheaded, blockish, chuckleheaded, dense, doltish, dull, dumb, duncical, fatheaded, goosey, hammerheaded, numskulled, pinhead, pinheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple; brute, brutish, dummel, lumbering, oafish, slow, slow-witted, sluggish; ||half-assed; crass; backward, half-witted, retarded; idiotic, imbecilic, dead above (or between)the ears, ||dead from the neck up, having a block for a head, having cotton between the ears, ||muscle-bund between the ears, LETHARGIC, comatose, dopey, heavy, hebetudinous, sluggish, slumberous, torpid.

This is a covert government program to mutate the brains of kids. The hope is that brain capacity will double, and the kids will grow up to have over sized craniums like space aliens in 1950s B movies. Murphy says that it will decrease by half. Which may suite the aims of George "Prince of Dimness" Bush just fine. [Not to be confused with Phil, "Prince of Insufficient Light"]

To repeat an earlier point:

Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these "half-wits" you have involved in the process, the worse things get.

The only question is, how many dim-wits make a half-wit?

>"at their wits end"

Here's a tip. Any path in problem-solving that leads you to 8chan is not actually a path to a solution, it is a problem finding a place to validate not finding a solution.

It also doesn't involve wit, in the traditional meaning of the word. Not even half-wit nor dim-wit. Whatever the right word is for null-wit or null-acumen.

Your points about narrative as explanation are well made, and there is more to explanation in the sciences, humanities and arts than can be provided by using p values as the hammer to crack the problem. Your two example narratives however, by being posed as alternatives of equivalent value, run the risk of legitimising the abhorrent murders.

A better illustration could have been chosen.

Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these "half-wits" you have involved in the process, the worse things get.

So, in the case of SCO, the multiplication effect has been carried out to an awe-inspiring degree. Assess the number of people in SCO management, determine what portion are half-wits, then do the math.

I think we can safely assume that the majority of SCO management personnel are half-wits.

Step out from behind the AC, take some time and check out Carter's publications. He has a number of papers in a number of journals world wide dealing with climate and glaciation over time. If you weren't as lazy as you are dismissive, you would see this.

Aside from his extensive publications (peer and otherwise) numbers conferences It's painfully obvious to even a half-wit that Carter is a "PEER" -- quite qualified to critique others on this subject. Well... maybe you don't qualify as a half-wit. Is there such a thing as a one-third-wit? Maybe a quarter-wit?

You are being wilfully obtuse if you don't acknowledge the convenience of charging at home. How complicated is it? Come home and plug in your car. When you get up the next day, your car is full. You don't have to drive to a gas station. Your car would have been in the garage at home anyways. The only difference is that you no longer have to go to the gas station and you no longer have to pump gas. Just wake up and go.

Perhaps you do not understand the definition of obtuse. So here is what google gave me:

obtuse

adjective

1.

annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

"he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse"

synonyms: stupid, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, ignorant, simpleminded, witless;

Extortion is when the discoverer of the bug states "Pay me or I'll use this bug to hack you." You could perhaps make a viable argument that blackmail is when anyone with knowledge of the bug states "Pay me or I'll exercise my free speech Rights." But there's a lurking negligence issue here. If the man hours versus bounty payout to discover a bug comes in at under the minimum wage, then any half-wit lawyer could make a viable argument that these for-profit companies had reckless disregard about the safety and or suitability of their product. A full-wit lawyer could make a viable argument that any for-profit company that relied on volunteerism for a significant portion of its quality control exhibited reckless disregard.

As a Canadian, it depresses me to see your contempt towards Canadians. However, I will not paint other Americans in the same dim-wit, half-wit way that you have painted yourself...You sir are a small-minded twit and USA should be embarrassed to call you one of their own.

Our economies are tied to each other, and they both rise and fall with the value of crude oil...Not much difference between our two economies except that the Canadian economy weathered the financial crisis of 2009 better than the US economy because of tighter lending policies...

On the left side, we have the dim-wits -- sure, some average, but trending to moronic. These are the republicans. On the right side, we have Non-dim-wits

Actually, libertarians tend to be smarter than either traditional Democrats or traditional Republicans.

Democrats tend to pay more lip service to science, but they really understand it just as poorly as Republicans.

Democrat versus Republican

This is like a bell curve representing intelligence -- the distribution thereof.

On the left side, we have the dim-wits -- sure, some average, but trending to moronic. These are the republicans. On the right side, we have Non-dim-wits -- sure, some average, but trending to genius. I didn't create this distribution. It is what it is.

So what has this to do with fat cats? Simple. To rule the asylum one only needs to be a little less crazy. And there it is, in black and white. I leave the rest to you. And if you don't know to which side of the curve you belong, well, I do, and I don't know anything else about you.

Democrat versus Republican

This is like a bell curve representing intelligence -- the distribution thereof.

On the left side, we have the dim-wits -- sure, some average, but trending to moronic. These are the republicans. On the right side, we have Non-dim-wits -- sure, some average, but trending to genius. I didn't create this distribution. It is what it is.

So what has this to do with fat cats? Simple. To rule the asylum one only needs to be a little less crazy. And there it is, in black and white. I leave the rest to you. And if you don't know to which side of the curve you belong, well, I do, and I don't know anything else about you.

Yes.

We need to start glorifying rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dim-wits, vipers, snipers, con men, indian agents, mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers, and methodists

What do the french say about Mormonism?

I don't know if the French government took a stand again against the Mormons but they were singling out Jehovah's Witness.

In 1998, the government of France imposed a 60% tax on religious offerings given by Jehovah's Witnesses to their organization, the local branch of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (WTS). A lien has also been established against their headquarters and printing plant. The intent appears to be to bankrupt the group. The Interior Ministry has refused to register the Temoins de Jehovah as an "association cultuelle" or "association culte." Thus they assert that member's contributions are taxable at the normal 60% rate for gifts in that country, under a 1992 law. The government has calculated that 303 million in French Francs ($50 million in US funds) is owed to the government. This represents 150 million in tax plus 60% in penalty charges and interest). This represents taxes not collected for the past 5 years. The Minister of Finance has refused to confirm this assessment, citing the confidential nature of the information. They do acknowledge that negotiations continue with the WTS.

source:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_franc1.htm#witness

Taking something that isn't yours is stealing, even if the owner makes it easy.

This is gambling however. It's like playing a game of poker where you aren't supposed to see the cards, but one player is showing them to you. It is HIS/HER fault. Using the knowledge of that players cards in your betting and game is fine-and-dandy with me. Each player should be covering his cards.

This is a slot machine, it is a perfectly legal profit center for casinos and gaming establishments to strip money away from the poor, addicted, weak-minded and the like. This isn't a case where a chap sneaks into a software design company, steals the code for a slot machine and sells it to another developer. This is out and out poor coding that has bitten someone in the ass and they are suing the guy who noticed it. If I was semi-omnipotent (whereby had the power to change who got fined, but not whether they got fined) I would be slugging any fine directly to the company who coded this rubbish in the first place.

And seeing as I am in a somewhat antagonistic mood, please enlighten me on how enticing dim-witted souls into thinking that they have a real chance of winning money, as compared to in reality siphoning off their meager funds isn't stealing. Casinos are nothing short of a way for someone to profit off the addictions, simple-wits and guilability of those beneath them - and this is said from someone who has made a good deal of money from playing poker - the real kind, against other players, not the poker-machine type. If you ask me, they should be totally and utterly, without the slightest hesitation, liable for any mistakes on their part, any badly written gaming machines, or any-and-all dumb-shittery, mental-fuck-up-edness or downright incompetence on their part.

Not only are you a half-wit, I'd like to bash your head in and make you a no-wit.

Mr. Spammer, you swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stu

Doing this is really similar to Jehovah's Witnesses practices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

Suppose you have to defend such an opinion.
The schema is as following:

  1) you defend an opinion that is not yours
  2) people argue and show you where your reasoning fails (and you probably get copiously insulted)
  3) instead of opening your mind, it enforces you into believing that if everybody is against you, that means that you are probably right
  4) your faith increases

In fact, this is used to increase your faith, not to openly debate about your beliefs.

Agreed. the methodology for this study apparently depends on utilizing the internal mental representations which the subjects carry rather than a response to stimulus.

While there may be some truth to this idea (that cities are full of distractions, and that they are difficult for the brain to cope with), the study only shows that the internal mental representations of "city" versus "nature" have an effect on the cognitive response to stimuli. So, perhaps walking down a city street in the state produced by having just stared at pictures of forests and listening to recorded nature sounds is the recommended approach.

On the anecdotal side: I live in Cairo and I'm a social scientist. I like to observe people and their behavior. Since moving here I have noticed that there are a lot of bright, quick-witted people in this teeming city. Then again, there are a lot of dull, slow-witted people as well. It seems to me that the differences between them lies not in stimulus to response-time correlation, but in the presence of higher-order logic in situations which require fast-response. In my anecdotal non-study, it would seem that the foreign expatriates who live here (who typically come from somewhere outside a large city in their countries of origin) lack the higher-order logic in their daily interactions on the street with people. It doesn't again present until they are out of the noise, off the street, and in a--for the English speakers--English-only environment again. Granted, there are loads of possible explanations for this, language being a glaringly obvious one, but it makes me wonder sometimes.

The locals, on the other hand, are sharp as tacks when it comes to figuring out what to do next. They don't usually have a plan that goes beyond a few steps, but that doesn't matter. They are more fluid in their movements and there seems to be greater plasticity in their responses. Some would say opportunist, I would say adapted.

Who knows though? This is all wild speculation, and so is TFA. This is a problem with these types of cognitive science studies, being that we still know very little about the inner workings of the human brain as it relates to the cognitive stuff that makes up a human person. This is not helped by the continued insistence of psychological models to hold on to the separation of "brain" and "mind" at the cognitive level. This was a sloppy oversight on the part of the writer of the summary, in this instance, and not the writers of TFA.

I wonder which dim-witted moron every thought up the concept of DST.
I work with people from different time zones and just use UTC for scheduling any event. Almost everyone knows the diff between their time and UTC and so this keeps thing clear.