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But you're talking about a different kind of sampling. I'm talking about this kind: Step 1.)Divide the people of the Earth into random groups of 25 Step 2.) Average the number of Rationals in each group. You should find that the average is one. (The rate is wrong, but that doesn't matter)...

It's the Final Countdown! :) -Duxwing

We await your reply, Seeker! :) Also, have you ever read anything by Brian Jacques? -Duxwing

Awwwwww! :) -Duxwing

Oh no no! I was only trying to be funny with that "Forever Alone" idea, and if that's trolling, then I apologize. This argument has morphed very much from its original intentions. No, and I didn't assert as much. Look over my assumptions, and you'll see that I'm arguing about a...

That's a pretty good explanation! :) -Duxwing

Woo! Text your wife to have a camera ready! -Duxwing

Of course the classes have selection pressures Hadoblado and I just splitting hairs for fun and knowledge. :D -Duxwing

Awwwww, congratulations! :) -Duxwing

But the fact that I'm a Rational is also the result of chance. I, too, adhere to the base rate. I just happen to be a Rational. Your argument implicitly uses two samples: A sample of 1 (me) and a sample of 24 unknowns. The sample really is 25 unknowns, of which one (me) has been...

And when you're done shooting hoops, you'll have a list of data points that will, on average, be {Misses = 9, Hits = 1}. Therefore, if all your sets of ten shots conformed to the average, then finding one hit in a given set means that you will find no other hit in that set. But, as you've...

I barely dodged that bullet, though. One false click and I would have been finished. On another note, I wonder if, in a bizarre twist of typology, I have more Fe than Lyra. When I read his vision of society-- an anarchic social darwinism that he regards as "beautiful"-- I was ready to deliver...

Oh how I loathe that. My classmates all get A's, but most of them either can't handle the minimal emotional conflict underlying intellectual discourse; can handle the conflict, but can't handle concepts and ideas beyond their "encyclopedia" of facts; or can handle both, but are so entrenched in...

You said that he didn't break any rules, not that those rules were unfair. However, the distinction is meaningless considering that unfair rules oughtn't be followed in the first place. -Duxwing

I never said that they'd be dumber. I said that I'd throw a fit. And I'd throw it because, assuming that the INFJ and ESFP are in my age group (16) we'd have few interests in common because our dominant functions would all be different and our auxiliary functions, the one source of common...

I lost my reply to scorpiomover's post, my reply to your PM, and my reply another post in a virus attack. I'm so frustrated. But thanks for the encouragement! :) -Duxwing

Your model is quite better, hadoblado. Thanks! :) And if you want to demonstrate a specific overall point, then state your hypothesis in an enunciation (a fancy way of saying "write your intended point at the beginning of your post") and then proceed to reason from your givens. If your...

What's your type, by the way? -Duxwing

Are you saying that we ourselves are fools? -Duxwing

He was a nuisance, thus breaking the last rule of the forum. -Duxwing

Which raises the question: What types are the partners? If I were among INFJ's and ESFP's for my discussion group, then I think that I'd have a fit if not a figurative 'meltdown'. -Duxwing

Must we suffers fools here, then, just as we do in life? I cannot imagine the purpose of this forum if illogic ruled the day. -Duxwing

Words never mentioned this possibility. Words, is the problem with intellect, or interest? -Duxwing

Bothered reading this? Seeker, reading your post was a pleasure-- so much so that I find myself pridefully attempting to emulate your style :o. And speaking of such achievements: as I read your post, I entirely forgot your status as an English language learner, and only your apology for...

Weird... so, INFJf is de facto ISFJf? Hmmmm... that doesn't ring right. The likelihood of an ISFJ mistaking themselves for an INFJ would be the same as that of an INFP mistaking themselves for an INTP, and I've yet to see a mistyped INFP among us. Moreover, a scanning of ISFJf and INFJf...

In the grander sense, you need to work on this. Being doggedly self-centered in a social setting will drive people away. If you want the socialization that you so crave, then you need to start caring about the people with whom you socialize. This attitude is another problem; looking down...

Same. Hence, Pride and Prejudice is a book that I'd like to exterminate... with extreme prejudice. -Duxwing

Awww, thanks! :) -Duxwing

Precisely. -Duxwing

I was trying to politely point out that your grammar and sytanx were bad. ;) And spirituality is nothing more than euphoria laden guesswork. I'll stick to logic. -Duxwing

I know that you wanted to say whales, but luminescent Wales seems just too funny. "Qui e est in Walesiem, donna e est requiem!" "And forth from the endless waters of time arose Wales, its shoreline aglow with resplendent alabaster, every fraction of its surface suffused with divine light!"...

Ehh? I want to laugh with you, but I don't understand. -Duxwing

The truth is like a brick on your carpet when you're stumbling in the dark. -Duxwing

Oh you can. It's just a matter of how much time you're willing to sink into it. -Duxwing

One can only know the 'distance' by trying to discuss various subjects with the person or people in question and gaining an inductive understanding of their ability. In other words, and to continue the metaphor: Leap. Aw. :( Maybe try to organize the topics so that both they and you grow...

Indeed, philosophy is the general case of all the sciences. It's the operating system for everything. And that's why it's so awesome. -Duxwing

Science is really philosophy with evidence. :D -Duxwing

Indeed, you are 71% erudite, 58% sensual, 38% martial, and 46% saturnine. Thoth, the Egyptian God of secret wisdom, intellect, geometry and other forms of higher mathematics, was also the God of books and learning, of writing and numbers. And above all, he was the God of Magic. Indeed, he was...

I await your reply. -Duxwing

I'm only playing by their rules for fun. Godel blows logic to bits. -Duxwing

Solution: Get a big tattoo of a sword on your chest and wear a scoop-neck shirt. :D -Duxwing

Yes, I've later realized that P&P is essentially a study in dirtbag-ology; an examination of the failings and foibles of Regency England. As such, I can enjoy it, but its crushingly despairing view is tiresome-- even with Lizzy and Darcy's romance. I'm frankly just not interested in watching...

Perhaps I've been unclear. Arguing in favor of a given set of ideals because one's logic has led one to believe in them is no crime to me. Rather, I object to relentless proselytization, underhanded arguments, and the substation of private conviction for demonstrable reason. Da Blob was...

Taller giraffes ate better. So? Tree length still affects neck length because cows that are too short perish. Not all trees are of the same height, either. Ever hear of lactation? Where to? Where from? Ever hear of evolutionary niches? Which are present in modern day giraffes and...

But that assumes that the gap is too great in all cases. Pardon my asking, but you seem rather terse and bitter about "carrying;" have you had a bad experience with it? -Duxwing

I like both. Carrying someone lets you bring the fruits of your intellectual labor to someone else: to raise them up from ignorance to knowledge, or, in the cases of those unacquainted with the finer points of argument and rhetoric, to help them hone their abilities. Besides feeling so good...

:o -Duxwing

He's right about the infinite regress of definitions, but wrong about analytic philosophy: a lexicon constructed from intuitions and qualia can very well have a solid internal structure, and analytic philosophy seeks to create that structure. For example, to determine the success or failure of...

OK. Let's say, for the sake of the argument, that those beliefs are false. The belief that those beliefs are false for the reasons that you've shown above is in itself a belief, and not a common one at that. In fact, I bet that more than half of the planet doesn't believe that, which means...