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People with Asperger Syndrome are sometimes characterized as Little Professors. This Autism Spectrum Disorder is often associated with extreme verbosity, which can manifest itself as an insatiable desire to explain things to people. There is a lively meme which contends that the programming universe is full of undiagnosed or borderline Asperger cases.
Could be. There are certainly a few things that seem to provoke this type of response in me, and one is innumeracy in the press. This usually presents itself in a story I read in which the numbers are so out of whack that I can't believe they made it past the bare minimum of a writer and an editor. Today's example is one in which the press freely accepted a ridiculous numerical conclusion that doesn't even stand up to common sense, much less casual mathematical inspection.
May 21, 2008
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