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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   PeteCresswell  wrote   
   > Jolly Roger wrote   
      
   >> Irrelevant. He has a degree. And a degree is   
   >> not a reliable indication of how smart you are.   
      
   > I'll go along with that....   
      
   Me too.   
      
   > But would also think that it's a pretty good indication   
   > that the person's IQ is above room temperature -   
      
   Certainly with room temp in degrees C   
      
   > and that they have better critical thinking   
   > skills than a non-college graduate.   
      
   That is very arguable indeed.   
      
   > OTOH, there's Ben Carson and his belief that the earth was created   
   > less than 10,000 years ago and that men walked with dinosaurs....   
   > So I guess the critical thinking part is not exactly ironclad...... -)   
      
   Nothing like it in fact. And that isnt his only terminal stupiditys.   
      
   > That is not to say it works the other way.   
      
   > To wit: the Amish.  Extremely low educational attainment, yet - as   
   > my #1 daughter-the-farmer observes "They know how money works"...   
   > and the ones I have interacted with are clearly nobody's fool.   
      
   But they mostly are silly enough to go along with the mindlessly   
   silly line that a phone in a wooden box at the corner of the property   
   is fine, but its absolutely unthinkable that it can be in the house.   
      
   Completely and utterly barking mad silly IMO.   
      
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