....but look how long they last! Those are a couple of Kings and a Queen ago.these British Coins....
....but look how long they last! Those are a couple of Kings and a Queen ago.these British Coins....
I wonder how a numismatist would feel?you would be mighty miffed getting any of these British Coins....
I just wanted to share for @Gene Neillwonder how a numismatist would feel?
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I dunno, I've never felt a numismatist yet.I wonder how a numismatist would feel?
My pet peeve are parents, peers and a culture that encourage non-thinking. I actually know people who think it is a bad idea to think too much and work to avoid a reputation as intelligent. I have met people who I honestly believe put effort into avoiding critical thinking.
It is more important to fit in than to be independent in thought.
-Will (Dragonfly)
"Simon and Garfunkel"The confirmation bias: "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest" popularly known as the bubble.
I thought I was the one who came up with that. Especially now with the Medicare enrollment period upon us again. Yea I'm old.I now get revenge by putting my phone on mute and answer YES. They robotically called me, now I delay their phone lines and live operators.
This reminded me of when we were kids with a lot of time and little money. One summer we discovered that we could grind the edges off of pennies and they would pass for dimes in the local Pepsi machines. Being true entrepreneurs we drank the Pepsi, stole the returnable bottles, turned them in at the local store and made more fake dimes. The local Pepsi factory caught on soon and removed all of the nearby machines. We responded by visiting the local Pepsi bottling plant and found there, out front, the last remaining Pepsi machine in our area. We cleaned it out and they hid that one also. We searched around the plant and found that there were no more machines available, but the bottling plant workers told us we could have all the Pepsi we wanted just walk in and take it. Took all the adventure out of it. Never had another Pepsi after that. Sorry for hijacking the thread...re: serrated edges on a coin: I recently got sucked into a FB did you know article.... The ridges were originally to allow detection of shaving the coins material away. Apparently to mint additional coins of your own, or raw material value alone. Now a matter of tradition.
Don't I know it.there are well known cognitive errors that humans tend to make.
That's funny. My wife was going to La Jolla CA for a seminar. I had to teach her how to say it correctly before she left so she wouldn't look like a rube. She's from Long Island. Unfamiliar with the lingo down south.I disagreed, and cited La Jolla. "That's just like it's written, La Jolla, not La Hoya".
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Ah, John, this is the stuff of dissertations and academic careers.It leads me to wonder about the utility of labeling this multitude of elements that influence thinking both conscientiously and unconscientiously.
That would be an example of the Recency and Primacy effect. We tend to hear the first idea and if it sits right, the confirmation bias kicks in and all we hear is supporting evidence. Sometimes. The other effect is the Recency effect we respond to the last message we hear and ignore earlier conflicting information. We just went through a brutal 2 weeks of that.What we learn first is what we believe to be right. It takes a lot of convincing and a very trusted authority to correct an erronious I learned it first bias. So, try to be the first to teach you children accurate truths. It will make it harder for the We are the party of... and our beliefs are truths bias to lead them astray.
It is not just the "teacher is right" it is the effect of an authority figure. Anyone remember the TV Show, Father Knows Best? Because humans are biased towards believing authority figures, it is critically important that we have leaders that we can trust and are honest. Let's see, Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the sinking of the Lusitiana, come quickly to mind.Ah yes, the dreaded "teacher is right" BS
Don't even get me going on this one. This is extremely popular right now among boat owners who want to convert to LiFePO4 batteries but, read only what they want to hear. They then feel victimized, by evil manufacturers, when they have a useless 3-10k pile of rubble staring at them...The confirmation bias: "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest" popularly known as the bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_biases