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"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Ah, yes... It's stupid to write words incorrectly, so anyone who writes words incorrectly are stupid.
It's fun to just stay at the surface instead of making an attempt of figuring out why people do the things they do, isn't it? Mix in a taste of elitism and namecalling, and you have a meal worthy of a king!
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
good debate horetore, controversially put but then the subject is sensitive.
speaking personally, i struggle with abstract numbers, though nothing so serious as requires a clinical diagnosis.
a good friend has mild dsylexia, and he is remarkably capable in his training as a biologist, a skydiver, a diver, a marksman, a pyrotechnics expert, and a professional cameraman.
i would never consider him dumb, but i accept the general term of the argument presented by hore, i.e. it meets the definition of reduced capability, albeit in a unhelpfully narrow definition of total ability.
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I don't understand why you get all upset by this poor (in both senses of the word) attempt at trolling by HoreTore. His assumtion that everyone, or society (whoever that may be), does not accept it that some people have trouble with performing certain tasks or solving certain problems due to (cognitive) disabilities is just false.
Also the supposed hypocricy he is talking about, which he derives from a thread about voting is also based on a wrong analogy. A more logical analogy would be the following, and I'm not saying I agree, but setting aside the notion of being stupid for a second here, if you know someone has the disability to write properly you do not ask him to write a long and complicated story on paper. If you know that someone has the disability to understand politics you should not ask him to give his opinion about politics...
If anything this thread should be about education, do we really need to require of people to know the basics all these things we now ask them to know the basics off. And perhaps within the education system dyslexia has been getting more attention than other disabilities, but not to the extent and nature that Horetore has been stating.
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I agree. I have done 'stupid' acts myself!
Sure, but the reason they do it is from group-polarisation effect, where values they hold find themselves aligned to a certain direction then skewed significantly due to the extremist elements. This 'risky-shift' in turn, makes their own opinion more extreme and through the 'Groupthink' effect and social categorization. There is a desire to maintain group-membership and when countered by conflicting information (which is then dismissed by Fox or by one of Fox's evil out-groups) they tend to alienate themselves from it, resulting in the hypothetical conservative bubble as shown by research in similar situations that people within these environments tend foster simplistic perceptions and more positive self-references/reinforcement.It's fun to just stay at the surface instead of making an attempt of figuring out why people do the things they do, isn't it?
The solution to this is actually to keep your mind fresh with other alternative sources, which allows people to form more independent and group irrelevant positions, without falling victim to these phenomena.
Last edited by Beskar; 12-04-2012 at 19:57.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
I told you he is on a communist lefty rant trying to prove that no person is responsible for their actions and everything we do is somehow decided by outside factors which is why we should make everyone equal. Everybody who agrees with him might as well kiss a picture of Stalin!
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I think he's getting at more the social construction of definitions and labeling. We make the slots and grossly simplify our relations/perceptions of people based on placement in those slots.
"It's fun to just stay at the surface" says it all really.
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We all have areas with reduced ability to learn. For me, I guess it would be visualization. That doesn't make the entire human population "dumb" though, and I reject the notion that some people are "dumb" because of X. The kid in my class who struggle with the nuances of public debate isn't dumb, the dyslectic kid isn't dumb, and the kid who can't read a graph isn't dumb.
The kids who have a fancy name for their inability learn are treated differently from those who are not, however. That rubs me the wrong way. The dyslectic kid is rarely made fun of. The girl who can't understand politics is fair game, however.
I have a brilliant quote from the first day of my second practice period:
We were doing a "mathathlon" to practice doing calculations without writing. The students were divided into teams. Each team got a bunch of papernotes with a math problem on it. The student was then supposed to solve the problem, and run to a sheet with different answer on it, place the paper with the problem on the correct answer, then run back and the next student does the same. Anyway, it was the turn of a boy who wasn't good at maths. He oicked up the note, and then just stood there looking at the paper. Soon, the girl behind him began helping him, while two other boys started snickering. How did the girl respond? She turned around, and said in a very assertive voice:
"Everyone has a problem with something, this is his problem, mind your own business!"
Now, if the world could only be like that 13-year old girl....
Last edited by HoreTore; 12-04-2012 at 20:05.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Last edited by Beskar; 12-04-2012 at 21:27.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Citing personal experience and that of my family members (nephews and nieces) who are at different stages of the school system. Greatest one being my 14 year old nephew looking at me as if I just got dropped off from another planet by even mentioning the word. I am fairly safe in assuming there has been no significant changes. Might be different in the utopia of Norway where no discrimination exists, but that is the reality here.
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Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
I managed to get into grad school and apparently have had dyslexia and ADD my whole life
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"Dyslexia" is a misnomer, it implies the person has a problem learning language - they don't, they have a problem learning to write.
By contrast, if someone has a problem understanding politics they have a problem understanding human interactions.
In the previous thread someone said Dyslexics have trouble learning languages, but that's not true either, they just have trouble learning to write them.
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To read, as well. It's a visual pattern matching thingy, seems to be a discrepancy between how you visualise letters and what the letters actually (should) look like. For instance mentally flipping some letters "upside down".
Which is where it does become a bit of an additional challenge when learning new languages: written word is the quickest and easiest way to practice (for example subtitles on tv).
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So being humans we fear, get angry with and ridicule the unknown.
Before dyslexia was figured out the children with it where made fun of even by their teachers. I'm sure more then one of them was made to wear a dunces cap and made to stand in the corner to be made an example of.
Now that we have an understanding of it and a label we are much more compassionate. Not totally so, but improved.
So I've no problem with our better understanding of some learning disabilities. I cannot figure out the logic in being angry in figuring out one issue and not resolving others such as political inability. Seems rather a non productive attitude to have.
A good summary.
Ah, don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that dyslexia is figured out, and I'm very excited about the growing recognition specific math problems(dyscalculi) is getting.
But still, I can't be happy about a society who calls my students stupid and makes them feel like they've failed life because they can't do X. I can't accept that.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Are you also sorry about a society that allows a little zebra to die just because it can't run away from a lion?
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There's a few key differences. One, politics as a school subject is a comparativly small. Dyslexia is basically that something makes them fall behind compared to the numbers of hours spent on learning it, usually because a brain center isn't working at the capacity that's considered normal.
By comparision politics would probably fall under advanced human interactions that's not really a single center in your mind. It's also not studied enough in school to fully comprehend, so that's something you'll do on your spare time. So diagnosing dyspolitixia (or whatever) compared to general disinterest in politics aren't really possible on a large scale. That would be someone who has red all platforms, significant data on the issues and still doesn't even feeling of getting something of it.
That's the flaw in your argument.
The flaw in the rants on the other hand... When buying a new car, you will of course create a weighted 20 (cars) x10 (important factors) matrix and calculate which the best car will be, don't you? Or maybe you'll identify some key factors and go with those. Or simply be going by your guts. That's because we're built that way to handle complex problems. And usually your guts are quite good at handling it and leaves you satisfied with the buy.
Of course education will certainly help, but that ignorance and simplification will remain anyway and if also present among those who has been studying the political platforms.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
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Except that Dyslexics don't have trouble with pattern recognition - Dyslexia is a very specific problem with matching glyphs to sounds, then putting the glyphs together to make words.
The quickest and easiest way to practice is to talk, which is how children learn.Which is where it does become a bit of an additional challenge when learning new languages: written word is the quickest and easiest way to practice (for example subtitles on tv).
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no one has that attitude, horetore just made that up. he cant specifically point someone out who has that attitude except maybe children, but children will ridicule someone for having a weird name if they cannot find something else or if that kid doesnt have a weird name, they will make a weird name up for him. they can also be very understanding ofcourse, like that 13yo kid from horetores example. now lets turn that into a social critique.
Last edited by The Stranger; 12-05-2012 at 14:36.
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