i just like the fact that the guy's research is debunking popular myths, to promote 'literacy' (?) and that current levels of belief in such things are 'dangerously high'.
ok.
so the anne rice novels, whatever your personal opinion of them was, were in fact *books* and the people who got a bit too involved in them, did in fact need to be fairly highly literate in order to do so... i mean, i assume you can substitute in your own more abstract difinition of 'literacy'... but i really feel that if you're a highly capable reader then you're literate.
and what exactly is the 'danger' here? too many people shopping at hot topic? (shrugs) gah. the math's not even good... if he actually wanted to say something worthwhile he ought to look at disease control modeling and not ignore the 'not everyone turns' point or any other of the potential varients. this is something you'd expect a high schooler to come up with after learning about exponential functions, to impress his friends at the lunch table.
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Date: 2006-11-17 05:37 am (UTC)ok.
so the anne rice novels, whatever your personal opinion of them was, were in fact *books* and the people who got a bit too involved in them, did in fact need to be fairly highly literate in order to do so... i mean, i assume you can substitute in your own more abstract difinition of 'literacy'... but i really feel that if you're a highly capable reader then you're literate.
and what exactly is the 'danger' here? too many people shopping at hot topic?
(shrugs) gah. the math's not even good... if he actually wanted to say something worthwhile he ought to look at disease control modeling and not ignore the 'not everyone turns' point or any other of the potential varients. this is something you'd expect a high schooler to come up with after learning about exponential functions, to impress his friends at the lunch table.