On 01/12/2012 09:50 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > On 01/12/2012 09:39 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> The average guy is not interested in knowing all details regarding >> how to >> play tennis with a wooden racket from the 1980s, just around >> the time when McEnroe was on the tennisfield playing there. >> >> Most people are more interested in whether you can win that grandslam >> with what you produce. >> >> The nerds however are interested in how well you can do with a wooden >> racket >> from 1980s,therefore projecting your own interest upon those students >> will just >> get them desinterested and you will be judged by them as an >> irrelevant person >> in their life, whose name they soon forget. > > Vincent, I think the only person projecting here is you. You refer to > the 'average guy'. The word 'average' itself implies that statistics > have been collected and analyzed. Can you please show us your > statistics, and how you collected them, to determine what the average > guy is interested in? And what about the average girl, what is she > interested in? If you are merely citing the work of other researchers, > please include citations.
Guys, let's just let this one die in it's traditional form of Vincent disagrees with the list and there is nothing more that can be done. I recently read a blog that suggested (due to similar threads following these trajectories) that the Wulf list wasn't what it used to be. Let's save the flames for editors, ellis _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
