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Subject: Re: The Rybka Flamewar & question for Vasik

Author: A.G.B. Bluemers

Date: 08:43:06 02/16/06

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On February 16, 2006 at 09:42:33, Günther Simon wrote:

>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.
this *study* was mentioned in the dutch news.
it's just another example of junk science.

>>
>>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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