I could understand getting that worked-up over a science with some kind of objective basis, but this is psychology we're talking about! Might as well get mad a

I could understand getting that worked-up over a science with some kind of objective basis, but this is psychology we're talking about! Might as well get mad at a Tarot reader for pulling the cards in the wrong order. That, and SMPY isn't a particularly compelling example. 1972-1997 is prime-time for computing, megacorporations, cold war military-industrial complex, and college educations all-around. Hard to imagine a more provident time to be a mathematically precocious youth! Looking at this in a broader slice of history, a comparison to the lives of men like Ramanujan or Heaviside would be more fitting. Perhaps the "Inappropriately Excluded" from the article just haven't lucked into their own personal force-multiplier yet. Gates and Buffet were having some discussion on how well they would have fared under more primitive circumstances. Gates's answer was something along the lines of "lion food". I think that is a fair answer. edit: > "sheer intellectual dishonesty in service of poisonous self-pitying" If this article set you off, I can only imagine how you deal with politics. ;-)