@wanyeburkett It’s a two step maneuver: 1) we over estimate these outlier skills as evidence of generally exceptional intelligence in all realms and 2) there is a big difference between potential intelligence and finely honed skills. The distribution on the former is much more regular.
@wanyeburkett Incentives not to transparently gouge people and present them with reasonable prices up front might increase. Also might push medical profession to lobby for lower out of pocket costs so they don’t get left holding the bill.
@Noahpinion Prosperous would be a better word than rich. Rich is about social comparison, prosperous is about health, means to autonomy and quality of life.
@wanyeburkett They are self righteous busybodies who just can’t admit that driving is usually a better experience than all the alternatives and most people will pay very high costs for it because they prefer it so strongly.
@AlecStapp It amazes me that people have become so used to hysteria as the only means of climate communication that they actually believe 2 degrees is going to directly kill large swathes of the population.
@wanyeburkett Homeschooling is an erosion of the social contract that binds society together. It’s an exercise of privilege that is hostile to the common good as an effort to delink one’s children from the fate of their peers who don’t have the option to do so. I understand why but it’s bad.
@TylerAlterman This is an unorthodox suggestion but I just read this book about the mind-body connection and how repressed emotions manifest as pain and it resulted almost immediate improvement for me. Irritable bowels are one of the symptoms they discuss. https://t.co/haMyFMoYB9