From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 16:42:30 GMT
>From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: DS syndrome
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 07:30:35 -0400
>
>
>On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Joe wrote:
>
>>If a person dogmatically insists that 2 + 2 = 5, it is a duty of
>>knowledgeable others, not a fault of theirs, to point out that they really
>>=
>>4, lest the mathematically deficient believe and spread the fallacious
>>meme. That's the way selection works.
>
>As Richard would be wont to point out, the correctness of a thing in no way
>determines its probability of selection or distribution.
>
You are correct, but probably, in the present context, selected against.
When a group has, in general, a predisposing bias in favor of an alluring
concept, they will likely tend to select against criticism of this concept,
regardless of the correctness of their cherished belief.
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