Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for January 26, 2023

True too. There is a lot of fuzzy thinking being thought in the name of social science. It’s hard, perhaps even for its professionals, to separate the grain from the chaff. But it can be helpful and important as well. Take economics. Please.

When I was at university (studying physics), someone had written some graffiti over a toilet roll holder in the students union bathroom which said “Sociology degrees: Please take one”

I always got an A in Sociology because our teacher thought he would become unsocial if he gave us anything less.

Yes, I do sort of draw. This was on the cover of some social science publication. This was written way back in like the 1990s when I received my first masters.

Journalist – 2+2 = 22

Social worker, I don’t know, but it is nice having a discussion about it.

Engineer 2+2 is determined to be between 3.999 and 4.001

Attorney 2+2 has been decided in court to be 4.

Accountant, closes the door and speaks softly – what do you want 2+2 to be?

Accountant got the job.

True for most cases, except in Microsoft™ Excel™.

1 + 1 = 2 because we say it does. We have build an entire society around an unprovable belief. That’s OK because we have done the same thing with money. Which is the problem with Crypto, not everyone believes; turns out when you look behind the curtain, there’s nothing there.

If you have ever studied Modern Algebra, you work up until you can prove 1 + 1 = 2. What is easy for a child takes pages for a mathematician to “prove”.

I dunno with this new math doesn’t 1+1=3 now??

I’m looking at it from a biology stand point. 1+1 could equal 3 or more – heck, in some cases (think Octomom) it could equal eight.

In Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s book on math from first principles it took many pages of proofs to get to that.

Yeah, but… “Truth is not truth.” Who said that? Not I … (but someone famous did. Look it up- this is important – ah, hell: it was Rudy Giuliani. Really! i didn’t make this up [like his ilk does!])

Did you know there’s ten kinds of people in the world? Those who understand binary & those who do not!)