No but if there was a poll of greatest musicians of our time and Justin Bieber scored in the top 10 and I made a statement insinuating Justin Bieber was not a good musician, I would need to explain my position if I wanted my statement to have any logic behind since it to since it is contrary to common opinion.
Would you? Art is subjective, and if a person cant understand that, than they should go fuck themselves. Poll's of opinion are worth about as much as a piece of shit in hand. But again, that is MY perspective on that, something you may not share. I give a fuck what the majority or minority thinks and I do not create my opinion around those variables.
The majority means something on subjective issues because it is a way to define the argument.
That doesnt make it a viable or correct way to do it...it just is the easiest way to do it.
If I say 2+2=4 (within our realm of spacetime etc) that can be proven true or false with real world facts.
True.
However, if I say Justin Bieber is a good musician - one way to come a test the validity of the statement is by referencing the majority opinion. It doesn't make the statement any more intrinsically correct, but the logic behind the argument is consensus.
While that may be true, thats still doesn't make it viable. Intropersonal perspective on subjectivism is coming into play here.
Consequently, if you choose the side contrary to majority opinion (whuch Armen did), you need to explain why (which are Armen did not do) or the comment becomes meritless and without logic.
To everyone else, sure. That still doesn't mean he has to explain his answer.
I disagree they are bad and examples and I chose them purposely because RR has empirical evidence to back up a claim that he was a great president as much as Lebron's stats back up his claim to basketball greatness; because who decides that Lebron's stats aren't as subjective. Why are points necessarily a defining character of being a good at basketball?
Since when are points scored the end all-be all of being a good player? There are several ways to calculate that, such as Points per minute, assists, FG%, FT%, TO/A ratio, etc. These are all statistical facts.
While RR has stats that backup WHAT he did, they can still be perceived as either good or bad, depending on who you ask.
You can say they are, I can argue they are not. You can't prove that Lebron's stat prove he is intrinsically good at basketball, but you can use the logic that most people think based on his stats that he is a good basketball player - there is still room for subjective debate whereas there is not with the argument 2+2=4.
So I guess i am confused as to why you are arguing FOR my point. Maybe I misread something along way.
Fair enough, he can say whatever he wants, and I will call bullshit whenever his comments look like swiss cheese.
And that is your right as an American and IMO, a human being.
Do you have any personal examples of them taking a poor applicant based solely on a monetary donation?
No, i dont.
We are talking about the average HS graduate, not specific graduates, because what is smart other than being more intelligent than an average person?
I guess you could look at it that way. However, what if this "average person" was an expert at fixing fishing boat motors...does that still make him average?
Simply;
Do you think there is a high or low probability that the President of the US is smarter than the average HS graduate in the US?
Again, intelligence is a very broad spectrum, and that is why I have a problem with your stance.
I think there was a thread about this a while back but I disagree that their is a difference between being book smart or street smart (unless by book smart you only mean ability to retain information but not necessarily comprehend it)
Thats fine, but I would suspect just about everyone would disagree with you. I have known several people that could do math in their head, knows everything about George Washington...but would never know NOT to wonder into a bad neighborhood at night. You know, common sense.
It was significantly above average and I don't know what you mean by "good"
Exactly.
think you misunderstood. What I meant was, how do we define someone as "smart" other than by a comparison to others?
GOod point. Without smart, there is no stupid and vice versa.
No more vague and incomplete than saying he is dumb because he doesn't speak well and fumbles over words.
Fair enough. However, the point you are arguing in terms of HOW his intelligence was measured, would say that for a man of his intelligence, he shouldn't be making up words, wouldn't you say?