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| Below the Line with RightSaid: 'I get most frustrated with my own comments' | Below the Line with RightSaid: 'I get most frustrated with my own comments' |
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| BTL (below the line) is a weekly profile of a particularly delightful, prolific or controversial member of our vibrant comment community. This week, we’re featuring another commenter from our Comment is free section. If you’d like to be featured, or nominate another worthy character, tell us in the comments! | |
| First comment - 11 January 2013: | First comment - 11 January 2013: |
| Miss America: change it, scrap it, or keep it? | Miss America: change it, scrap it, or keep it? |
| “Of course it is an anachronism, but you can suggest it be scrapped all you want and it will do no good. The pageant is Donald Trump’s primary means of finding dates.” | |
| Most recommended comment - 131 recommends: | Most recommended comment - 131 recommends: |
| Phone companies remain silent over legality of NSA data collection | Phone companies remain silent over legality of NSA data collection |
| “It looks like the telecom companies are operating as a cartel. How do we dump them?” | “It looks like the telecom companies are operating as a cartel. How do we dump them?” |
| In what subject do you consider yourself an expert? | In what subject do you consider yourself an expert? |
| Formal logic as it applies to complexity, computer science, and linguistics. | Formal logic as it applies to complexity, computer science, and linguistics. |
| Why do you comment? | Why do you comment? |
| Who do you most admire? | Who do you most admire? |
| Anna Wierzbicka is a linguist with a long career and very interesting insights into lexicography, semantics, and pragmatics. | Anna Wierzbicka is a linguist with a long career and very interesting insights into lexicography, semantics, and pragmatics. |
| What science story should recieve more coverage? | What science story should recieve more coverage? |
| I’d like to see more stories integrating issues in philosophy of science to everyday practice - similar to what NYT is doing with The Stone. | I’d like to see more stories integrating issues in philosophy of science to everyday practice - similar to what NYT is doing with The Stone. |
| Guardian covered some similar issues regarding Kuhn, but there are other very practical issues such as psychological projection, logical positivism, and motivated reasoning, wishful thinking, that would be productive to reexpose. | Guardian covered some similar issues regarding Kuhn, but there are other very practical issues such as psychological projection, logical positivism, and motivated reasoning, wishful thinking, that would be productive to reexpose. |
| I also rarely see any serious linguistic science, and that topic is interesting to me. | I also rarely see any serious linguistic science, and that topic is interesting to me. |
| Tell us about a recent scientific discovery that excited you | Tell us about a recent scientific discovery that excited you |
| I think either the discoveries of graphene or the memristor have to be the most exciting bits of recent science for me. | I think either the discoveries of graphene or the memristor have to be the most exciting bits of recent science for me. |
| Which commenters and comments make you most frustrated? | Which commenters and comments make you most frustrated? |
| Hard to say. I range across a number of areas of interest and don’t keep track of who said what. | Hard to say. I range across a number of areas of interest and don’t keep track of who said what. |
| I get most frustrated with my own comments when I have said something that is incorrect but comments have closed before I can fix. | I get most frustrated with my own comments when I have said something that is incorrect but comments have closed before I can fix. |
| Other than that, repetition of arguments that have been thoroughly refuted are most tiresome. | Other than that, repetition of arguments that have been thoroughly refuted are most tiresome. |
| Would you like to be featured next week? Tell us about yourself here | Would you like to be featured next week? Tell us about yourself here |
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