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  1. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1
    http://www.learningherbs.com/garlic_remedy.html Scroll down until you see "feet."

    Garlic cures lots of ills (seems obvious to some people) --> Rub garlic on your feet and put socks on ("When I wake up I get garlic breath so I know it works!" Obvious, right?) --> PROFIT

    There are no studies that have shown this works for anything, but people still believe it. In the same sense that there are no studies that have shown that the NCLB act benefits society -- but some people still believe it.

    Studies = good. Paying attention to studies = good.

  2. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's completely obvious, but unfortunately some people won't listen to even the most obvious things until you can say, "a study proved it."

    I don't think this is quite true -- if it were, there wouldn't be so many morons rubbing organic garlic on their feet to try to get rid of their headaches. "Obvious" is subjective, and can often be misleading. If there were more people that evaluated studies before making a decision, the world would be a much better place (and, no, we wouldn't have the "No Child Left Behind" act.
  3. Re:Just a bit of overkill on HP Introduces First-Ever 30-bit, 1 Billion Color Display · · Score: 1

    Even 10 million is *a little* less than 1 billion... Why even professionals doing color sensitive work would want more colors than really matters to anyone, I don't quite understand. But I still want one:)