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It is a bell distribution with exactly 50% above/below average. Yet, if you look into it, you will find that 80% of people consider themselves to be above average. You will also find that one of the more common coping strategies for dealing with low-skill is to claim that there are just a few super-geniuses who inexplicably offset the data to make the rest of us look bad. Or sometimes the belief in the actual data is equated with being conceited. Sociologist Erwing Goffman may have said that people want everyone to be equal so they don't feel like anyone is being left-out or disproved of, so he called this the "rule of considerateness", and that is probably why you can't have data that shows most people are stupid, or even that half the people are stupid, because they want to believe that there are these outliers with everyone in the middle being relatively "normal". Of equal social value.

See, for example: The Curse of the Self by Mark R Leary
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I have three monitors, all different models, two keyboards, two mice. I have a black keyboard and white mouse hooked up to one tower, and a black mouse and white keyboard hooked up to the other tower. One tower serves two monitors and the other tower serves one monitor. I have a cork board, two white boards, set of speakers and an Avaya phone. 5-6 people use this work station and it can get pretty grimy, but I try to keep it clean.
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An iron barrel key, probably french, possibly dated 18th century, probably for a prison cell door.

The Difference Between Genius and Stupidity, Medium, Light Blue
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You know, the only conspiracy I believe in is the conspiracy of Self. But there are certain events that take place in the world in the name of Self which may appear to be a conspiracy of sorts. Jekyll Island, the Balfour Declaration, the Federal Reserve Act and the Debt-based monetary system all seem to indicate a vicious control of the monetary system.

I have independently verified these facts by sourcing out the original documents (and not relying on pop internet documentaries like "Debt As Money" or "The American Dream" or "The Corporation").

This activity is really just a subsidiary action of the worship of Self.
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This is the greatest thing the internet has ever single-handedly invented. A button that is as useful as the majority of psychological coping mechanisms and produces the necessary results much faster.
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Nice! One thing to keep in mind is that dopamine is a reward chemical which seldom acts alone and can act on receptor sites in different regions resulting in different effects.

It's reasons like that, that I get discouraged by the popularization of isolated neuroscientific facts. Paul J. Zak famously discovered Oxytocin in humans and much speculation has followed on the role Oxytocin plays. However, prior research also showed that Vasopressin played a similar role to Oxytocin, and that both of these chemicals were likely to be associated with Phenethylamine and Norepinephrine, and probably Cortisol too. Everything is a "cocktail" of activation across the brain and understanding any part of it means understanding all of it. Makes it hard to popularize it without the truth dropping out of it at the same time.
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And more of course... "Maya" means much more than belief in the reality of abstractions. In it's Buddhist/Hindu use it refers to a character similar in pscyhology to Satan in the Bible or Milton's Paradise Lost.

Here is a case:

A: There is no such thing as free-will
B: If there is no such thing as free-will, then we could not be held responsible for anything and murderers would run wild.

Note that person B is not so much interested in whether or not A's statement is true and free-will is false, as they are with their own narrow-minded desires and fears.

A might respond by saying "let's worry about how to deal with the facts once we know what the facts are."
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A lot of people have vagal nerve failures following intense pain. It's usually just the case that a person faints from the pain, called Vasovagal syncope. If this is the case then laying the person down can help restore blood to their brain.
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Like I said; if it can be reasonably expected from the statistical data, then people will not consider it "prejudice" they will call it "good business sense".

But if this wasn't a business setting... things would be a lot different.
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