Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Why smudge? Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:03:52 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <218dbj$4u7@news.cerf.net> <219r34$gk4@news.cerf.net> <64fa7d1f-d80b-4e7c-b087-d42c9c5a201d@googlegroups.com> <30e2841a-637c-461c-8df9-02957a978226@googlegroups.com> <4bf7471b-6bf4-4cf9-a82a-ac561a15836b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:33935 On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:05:19 -0400, Gerry Jackson = wrote: > You shouldn't ascribe machiavellian motives to everything that someone= = > does. After all Stephen Pelc is not listed as a (presumably voting) = > member of the ANS Forth Technical Committee, only as a contributor. I = = > prefer the cockup side of the cockup vs conspiracy theory (look up = > Hanlon's Razor that I hadn't previously heard of before. Off topic: as= = > an aside that led me to Sturgeon's Law which I like). > I think Wikipedia's pages on the Peter principle and Dunning-Kruger effect are far more interesting. Dunning-Kruger has come up here in the past. Hopefully, Hugh and Bernd may read them some day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning=E2=80=93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle Rod Pemberton