A blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, an employment discrimination case.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Scientists Are Concerned with what is More Probable Than Not
Maybe I have the mind of a scientist.
When psychiatrists say that I have psychotic mental illness, and I show no signs of psychotic mental illness -- it is more probable than not that something as yet unexplained is going on.
Scientists know that if something happens 51% of the time, that's technically more than pure chance.
I may be wrong a lot with my inferences, but technically it's not paranoia if I am right 51% of the time. OK, so I'm wrong 49% of the time. In college, that would earn me a failing grade. But in life it means I am NOT paranoid, but insightful.
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked on the Manhattan project that developed the atom bomb.
ReplyDeleteWhen I am depicted as drifting in and out of psychotic mental illness -- it is more probable than not that something unexplained is going on.
ReplyDeleteScientists know that if something happens 51% of the time, that's technically more than pure chance.
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong a lot with my inferences, but technically it's not paranoia if I am right 51% of the time. OK, so I'm wrong 49% of the time. In college, that would earn me a failing grade. But in life it means I am NOT paranoid, but insightful.