{"id":5178,"date":"2017-10-04T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/alberto-brandolinis-bullshit-asymmetry-principle-and-vallicellas-first-and-second-corollaries\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:59:37","slug":"alberto-brandolinis-bullshit-asymmetry-principle-and-vallicellas-first-and-second-corollaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/alberto-brandolinis-bullshit-asymmetry-principle-and-vallicellas-first-and-second-corollaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and Vallicella’s First and Second Corollaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

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The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The pseudo-precision of 'energy' and 'order of magnitude' aside — in what units is this 'energy' measured ? — the idea is a good one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vallicella's First Corollary:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The amount of effort needed to grade and correct and annotate a lousy term paper is much greater than the effort needed to produce it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Vallicella's Second Corollary:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The amount of effort needed to referee a journal submission and justify one's evaluation is inversely related to the quality of the submission.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. The pseudo-precision of 'energy' and 'order of magnitude' aside — in what units is this 'energy' measured ? — the idea is a good one. Vallicella's First Corollary: The amount of effort needed to grade and … Continue reading “Alberto Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and Vallicella’s First and Second Corollaries”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}