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Subject: Re: The Rybka Flamewar & question for Vasik

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 06:42:33 02/16/06

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On February 16, 2006 at 08:54:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 16, 2006 at 01:26:41, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>Surely there must be some difference between "bad taste" and questioning a
>>persons *honesty*?
>>
>>Then again - who cares about nodes? The playing strength is what counts.
>>
>>/S
>
>A recent study has reveiled that in a big tests, emotional psychopaths were
>consistently performing better at buying and selling shares and stocks than
>non-psychopaths, as they mercilous took decisions without taking into account
>anything else but the principle of making profit.
>
>If you deal with an emotional psychopath, please note i do NOT say Vasik is one,
>do you find him a better person because he makes a bit more profit with his
>$5000 at wallstreet than you do with your $5000?

What is the sense of introducing fictional 'emotional psychopaths',
if there is neither a relation to Vas nor to somehing in Sunes post?
What has all above to do with this thread at all?
Wild theories about who is the 'better' psychopath in chess(show?)biz
seem to be appropriate for CTF.
(BTW I highly doubt the so called 'study' even exists or can barely be
called a 'study' in a scientific sense for several reasons.
1. How did they define psychopaths and non-psychopaths there? 2. How did they
find people in the stock biz, who would even anonymously confess they were
psychopaths? 3. Even if they had confessed, who verified it on what base? ;-)
- Give a link to that great 'study')

Guenther

... didn't read further after the first weird chapter




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