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Assumption Gumption What's Your Function
Sep. 30th, 2005 10:50 pm[You'll have to forgive me I wrote this at 2 am in the morning and made more than one typo.]
Conjunction Junction What's Your Function has been floating about in my head all week, except I changed the lyrics to Assumption Gumption what's your Function. Become increasingly aware over time how fallable human reason is and how much of our beliefs, views, judgements, opinions, and attitudes are based on assumption derived from reasoning short-cuts. Makes sense, we have to make a million decisions each day, some of us more than others, depending on where we live and financial income. But even that statement may be based on faulty reasoning. There's an old saying that the wise man/ woman says " I don't know" while the fool states he/she does. Course if you took that old saying to it's literal conclusion that would make all agnostics wise and all true believers fools. And I'm not sure that logic tracks either.
The short cuts are simple enough, I'm not even sure we're aware we're doing it, or at least I'm not aware. Where do I get off pulling others into this with me - using the all inclusive "we". Annoys me to no end when others do it. I keep wanting to say - "how do you know anyone besides you feels this way, were you gifted with ESP or something?" Because, honestly, unless you took a poll every five minutes, you don't have a clue.
( The Fallability of Human Reasoning )
For explaination of it the below game, read the above.
Here's a game, it's true/false. Spot the truthful assumption.
1. No one above the age of 30 is a virgin.
2. Virgins have never experienced sex of any sort and can't write about it and are poor pathetic creatures.
3. Every girl lost her virginity in college.
4. Europeans aren't as prejudiced as people in the US and tend to be nicer.
5. All blacks are stupid.
6. All Jews have dark eyes, are short, and have big noses.
7. Catholics have large families and don't use birth control and follow the Pope.
8. All Catholics are either from Irish or Latin descent.
9. Everyone who enjoyes BTVS is a geek.
10. All comic book lovers are geeks.
11. If you read comic books you must play Dungeons and Dragons or into role playing games.
12. All Americans are rich.
13. All Americans have indoor plumbing and electricity.
14. All Americans are Christian or Jewish.
15. All Europeans hate Americans.
16. All Spike lovers love Spike because he has great cheekbones and a great body.
17. All homosexual men are into cooking, fashion, and looking great.
18. Piceses tend to be wish-washy.
19. I get along with Sagitarians, therefore if Sam is a Sagitarian, I'll like Sam.
20. Most men I know who are film majors or into film analysis are gay, if Johnny is a film major, he must be gay.
21. All lesbians hate makeup and jewelry. Jamie is a woman and hates makeup and jewelry so must be a lesbian.
22. All lesbians cut their nails, Jamie cuts her nails, she must be a lesbian.
23. If you are female, single without a boyfriend, you must be gay.
24. My friend who is gluten free can eat oats, so you can eat oats.
25. My friend who is gluten free loves to eat this product, you'd love it too.
26. Americans are cheap travelers.
27. All British are snobs.
28. If you mispronounce words or mispell them you must be stupid.
29. If you can't read, then you are unintelligent.
30. My friend is dyselexic and was able to pass her board tests with ease, therefore you should be able to since you are dyslexic too.
31. I'm dyslexic and flip letters, everyone who is dyslexic only flips letters.
32. People from the Midwest mispronounce the names of states.
33. Intelligence is determined by how well you score on timed multiple choice tests. High scores mean you are smart. Low scores mean you are stupid.
34. If you miss on the first basket, you'll miss on the next two.
35. If the Serenity comic books sell out this means the movie will do well.
36. It is obvious that any hurricane would have destroyed New Orleans levees, after all they were proven to be weak.
37. Dogs are smarter than cats.
38. Cats are smarter than dogs.
39. If you take a pottery class, you will make something on the first few throws.
40. Anyone can sing , they just need to be taught how.
(These aren't the best in the world - but came up with them at 1 am in the morning off the cuff. Here's a few more: Only skinny women can find a guy, since all men prefer women who are thin. All democrats are liberals. All republicans are right-wing conservatives. The only women in fashion magazines and on tv that are considered pretty are thin, therefore you are only pretty if you are thin. All TV shows are violent. Children who watch violent tv shows are more aggressive than children who don't. )
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Conjunction Junction What's Your Function has been floating about in my head all week, except I changed the lyrics to Assumption Gumption what's your Function. Become increasingly aware over time how fallable human reason is and how much of our beliefs, views, judgements, opinions, and attitudes are based on assumption derived from reasoning short-cuts. Makes sense, we have to make a million decisions each day, some of us more than others, depending on where we live and financial income. But even that statement may be based on faulty reasoning. There's an old saying that the wise man/ woman says " I don't know" while the fool states he/she does. Course if you took that old saying to it's literal conclusion that would make all agnostics wise and all true believers fools. And I'm not sure that logic tracks either.
The short cuts are simple enough, I'm not even sure we're aware we're doing it, or at least I'm not aware. Where do I get off pulling others into this with me - using the all inclusive "we". Annoys me to no end when others do it. I keep wanting to say - "how do you know anyone besides you feels this way, were you gifted with ESP or something?" Because, honestly, unless you took a poll every five minutes, you don't have a clue.
( The Fallability of Human Reasoning )
For explaination of it the below game, read the above.
Here's a game, it's true/false. Spot the truthful assumption.
1. No one above the age of 30 is a virgin.
2. Virgins have never experienced sex of any sort and can't write about it and are poor pathetic creatures.
3. Every girl lost her virginity in college.
4. Europeans aren't as prejudiced as people in the US and tend to be nicer.
5. All blacks are stupid.
6. All Jews have dark eyes, are short, and have big noses.
7. Catholics have large families and don't use birth control and follow the Pope.
8. All Catholics are either from Irish or Latin descent.
9. Everyone who enjoyes BTVS is a geek.
10. All comic book lovers are geeks.
11. If you read comic books you must play Dungeons and Dragons or into role playing games.
12. All Americans are rich.
13. All Americans have indoor plumbing and electricity.
14. All Americans are Christian or Jewish.
15. All Europeans hate Americans.
16. All Spike lovers love Spike because he has great cheekbones and a great body.
17. All homosexual men are into cooking, fashion, and looking great.
18. Piceses tend to be wish-washy.
19. I get along with Sagitarians, therefore if Sam is a Sagitarian, I'll like Sam.
20. Most men I know who are film majors or into film analysis are gay, if Johnny is a film major, he must be gay.
21. All lesbians hate makeup and jewelry. Jamie is a woman and hates makeup and jewelry so must be a lesbian.
22. All lesbians cut their nails, Jamie cuts her nails, she must be a lesbian.
23. If you are female, single without a boyfriend, you must be gay.
24. My friend who is gluten free can eat oats, so you can eat oats.
25. My friend who is gluten free loves to eat this product, you'd love it too.
26. Americans are cheap travelers.
27. All British are snobs.
28. If you mispronounce words or mispell them you must be stupid.
29. If you can't read, then you are unintelligent.
30. My friend is dyselexic and was able to pass her board tests with ease, therefore you should be able to since you are dyslexic too.
31. I'm dyslexic and flip letters, everyone who is dyslexic only flips letters.
32. People from the Midwest mispronounce the names of states.
33. Intelligence is determined by how well you score on timed multiple choice tests. High scores mean you are smart. Low scores mean you are stupid.
34. If you miss on the first basket, you'll miss on the next two.
35. If the Serenity comic books sell out this means the movie will do well.
36. It is obvious that any hurricane would have destroyed New Orleans levees, after all they were proven to be weak.
37. Dogs are smarter than cats.
38. Cats are smarter than dogs.
39. If you take a pottery class, you will make something on the first few throws.
40. Anyone can sing , they just need to be taught how.
(These aren't the best in the world - but came up with them at 1 am in the morning off the cuff. Here's a few more: Only skinny women can find a guy, since all men prefer women who are thin. All democrats are liberals. All republicans are right-wing conservatives. The only women in fashion magazines and on tv that are considered pretty are thin, therefore you are only pretty if you are thin. All TV shows are violent. Children who watch violent tv shows are more aggressive than children who don't. )
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