QF wilch

I'll do an avatar prop bet that says wil had a higher SAT score than 5ive, who wants in?

That sounds fun. For how long will I be forced to endure some strange avatar?

Oh no, son, plenty of people think I won. You are the one avoiding ending this.

If I was going to pick arbiters it would be someone I think is unbiased towards either of us. All I ask is they read the thread.

You pick a few names and we can go from there. Obviously people who've weighed in already can't be picked (unless they have been neutral so far, like well named). People like hastendan or trolly obviously can't be picked. I was thinking maybe someone who doesn't even post here.

I say a month, let Jalfreizi arbitrate (can't really see how there'd be any dispute, but w/e). Are you game?

Kinda think I have the wrong end of this bet, but who cares.

booked. May the odds be ever in your favor

OK, wil & 5ive, gonna need your SAT scores.

If you need an incentive I'll tell you mine so you can make fun of my math ineptitude

juan and tooth are absolutely horrible at providing evidence. they make so many false claims it is incredible. I mean, juan just straight up make stuff up.

tooth is indeed more insidious bc he does use facts and evidence. he just uses it a clearly improper and fallacious manner. anyone with half a brain can see how tortured his logic really is.

Yeah, but those plenty are (a) mostly the deplorable idiots, and (b) are mostly saying that the spelling error is an angle-shoot, therefore you won.

But, (b) doesn't make any sense, as has been pointed out multiple times. Also, jalfrezi has made clear he considers the bet to be solely about the spelling error.

The terms you are offering here are themselves completely biased. Again, if I was jalfrezi, I'd insist that the arbitrator(s) be mandated to decide the two underlying questions at hand, and certainly not mandated to "just read the thread, and decide who won".

As for the avatar bet... the loser should have to have an avatar cropped from that infamous pix of a certain child holding a "fly sucks" sign. Cropped to exclude that innocent child, of course.

lol wil

Then we have a real dilemma here. As much as I disagree with you I can't deny you may actually think this is true.

Obviously one of us is wrong. I would argue simply from the responses of people it's pretty easy to tell who is correct, but I don't see how we could come to a decision.

Juan linking to an online personality test when asked to source his speculations on psychology was the time I realised he wasn't just ducking citations, he genuinely doesn't know what one is.

But great that Team Wil is full of such academics.

It seems like if we were going by the responses of people, it would not support you.

Look at the responses by the posters. It is of no surprise that the idiot crew is on one side.

Do you consider people like Kerowo and Samsonh intelligent posters, or unbiased in any way? Lol.

Go ahead, make a little list of who is on what side and let's compare the quality of the people who took those sides. It's comical. Even Fly didn't side with dirtbag Jalfrezi.

wil, every single regular poster here with the possible exceptions of mongodogdoohdah and BS is more intelligent than you, and even they are a coin flip against you.

I'm a bit confused. When you said "look at people's responses" did you mean, look at the responses, then sort by intelligence and bias, then try to make some sort of dubious decision about who is correct?

I don't particularly think anyone is unbiased.

Yeah, proven liars and scumbags? People like aofrantic? Trolly? Kerowo?

Bahah. No rational person could even begin to think you are in any way honest here. But, that's usual for you because you're a dirtbag deadbeat.

Feel free to go ahead and suggest some arbiters.

I'm very unlikely not to veto anyone who I'm not confident is intelligent and impartial.

Those three and all the other Trollys are all more intelligent than you.

It really seems like your post could be more accurately stated as:

"I would argue simply from the responses of people who agree with me it's pretty easy to tell who is correct"

Intelligence (in the sense of raw ability) is over-rated imo. Education, critical thinking skills, media and information literacy, and the ability to integrate diverse information into some kind of coherent perspective are all more important, have to be learned, can be learned even if you're only modestly intelligent, and do not come automatically even to the very intelligent.

Granted, I guess people often say "intelligent" as a short-hand to refer to some combination of all of that. But then we whip out IQ or test scores as measures, but they don't measure the important stuff :P

IQ test for rolls?

Sry, the nit inside couldn't help himself.

This is all true once a certain threshold is met. Hard work trumps intelligence nearly every time.

Eh honestly I think both are pretty important. There are a lot of stupid people out there.

Like, for example, if wil were the hardest working person ever, I bet he would still be a dumbass.