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1 hour ago, Phil xxkr said:

I am inevitably reminded of Thomas Sowell who wrote ;

Many intellectuals and their followers have been unduly impressed by the fact that highly educated elites like themselves have far more knowledge per capita—in the sense of special knowledge—than does the population at large. From this it is a short step to considering the educated elites to be superior guides to what should and should not be done in a society. They have often overlooked the crucial fact that the population at large may have vastly more total knowledge—in the mundane sense—than the elites, even if that knowledge is scattered in individually unimpressive fragments among vast numbers of people.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society 🍻

Your straw man reply does not add much to this.

Let's leave it at that.  

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22 hours ago, Mr_Groundhog said:

...If only most of that money was well spent. I worked in public sector projects and I can assure you a huge amount of that money is fixed to flow to private "consulting" firms such as NHS SBS, owned by Sopra Steria, and not to fund patient wellbeing, prevention programmes, good working conditions or efficiency. This practice infantilises the NHS and is more expensive to run.

We have UK educated doctors for instance, leaving for Australia in droves.

Contrary to uninformed belief NHS SBS is not wholly owned by Sopra Steria but a joint venture with the NHS. It is not mandatory to use the service but typically offer savings of up to 15% for users of the service. How they use those savings is unknown. In the same vein about emigration of doctors here is an interesting stat. Bear in mind this applies to ALL leavers, filtering out a specific destination and permanent residence as opposed to widening work experience is very difficult to confirm. 

"Figures from NHS Digital in England show over the past decade the proportion leaving overall has remained pretty constant at about 14-15%.

Meanwhile, the number of new joiners has increased, leading to a rise in the number of doctors in the NHS" 

There are various estimates that believe Moses in his Exodus LED up to two million people out of Egypt which is coincidentally the same number employed by the NHS. So I don't believe they all wish to leave but as it's now a form of religion anyone outside of the cult is fair game for criticism. 

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2 hours ago, Phil xxkr said:

I am inevitably reminded of Thomas Sowell who wrote ;

Many intellectuals and their followers have been unduly impressed by the fact that highly educated elites like themselves have far more knowledge per capita—in the sense of special knowledge—than does the population at large. From this it is a short step to considering the educated elites to be superior guides to what should and should not be done in a society. They have often overlooked the crucial fact that the population at large may have vastly more total knowledge—in the mundane sense—than the elites, even if that knowledge is scattered in individually unimpressive fragments among vast numbers of people.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society 🍻

Law of large numbers.

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1 hour ago, Boomer54 said:

Law of large numbers.

Collective intelligence is used practically in a number of ways unfortunately not in evidence in current government 😅

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1 hour ago, Phil xxkr said:

Collective intelligence is used practically in a number of ways unfortunately not in evidence in current government 😅

Collective intelligence works on the principle the larger the sample set the closer you get to the expected true mean. So for a population of voters around 48 million we hope that the expected true mean nullifies the undesireable risk effect from either end of the distribution curve. The benefit of this is you don't get overly effected by outliers. You discard the few brilliant minds likewise those who are thick as a brick . Either way you are also cancelling out aberations you don't want. At an extreme suppose you relied upon just the one brilliant mind and for arguments sake let's call him Linus. Lets' suppose on one issue on one day he delivers you the optimum solution to a problem/issue. Unfortunately, the next day he might wake up with a god complex and deliver you a ruinous solution to an issue. The fact is a brilliant mind is never going to be brilliant at resolving all problems and in relying upon it you create the potential for what in Monte Carlo modelling is termed RUIN from which one can never recover. Thus the Law of Large numbers applied  comes with obvious benefits. T'is true though that Parliament probably falls outside the scope of same because the data set in question may be 'tainted' and unrepresentative of the population as a whole. 😉

Now puzzle for the day is where was he being serious and where wasn't he?

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9 hours ago, Phil xxkr said:

 but typically offer savings of up to 15% for users of the service. How they use those savings is unknown.

It takes faith to believe "It's cheaper to run" 😄 
Of course! When you need to turn a profit and fat cat bonuses, it is magically cheaper to run. ...And you talk about religion and cults!

Ignorance is daring, I won't hold it against you.
Either that or you're one of the people I had above me, who did nothing all day but shaking hands and self-promote (leaving some very expensive Power Point slides in their wake). I was there and I know full well how it works, no need to school me.
In this context, "joint venture" means the public side takes the losses, and the private sector reaps the benefits. I am going to assume you're at a very early stage (professionally) not to know this.

You went from the straw man to the tautology. What an addition to the forum.

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1 hour ago, Mr_Groundhog said:

It takes faith to believe "It's cheaper to run" 😄 
Of course! When you need to turn a profit and fat cat bonuses, it is magically cheaper to run. ...And you talk about religion and cults!

Ignorance is daring, I won't hold it against you.
Either that or you're one of the people I had above me, who did nothing all day but shaking hands and self-promote (leaving some very expensive Power Point slides in their wake). I was there and I know full well how it works, no need to school me.
In this context, "joint venture" means the public side takes the losses, and the private sector reaps the benefits. I am going to assume you're at a very early stage (professionally) not to know this.

You went from the straw man to the tautology. What an addition to the forum.

When given the opportunity to widen people's horizons I heartily reccomend travel and the writings of such sages as Warren Buffet, Deepak Chopra, Chris Langan and of course Thomas Sowell who opines, he has grave concerns over “the extent to which people who present empirical evidence counter to prevailing [social justice] beliefs, are met with ad hominem denunciations and with efforts to suppress their evidence.”

Quite revealing don't you agree? 😎

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18 hours ago, Phil xxkr said:

When given the opportunity to widen people's horizons I heartily reccomend travel and the writings of such sages as Warren Buffet, Deepak Chopra, Chris Langan and of course Thomas Sowell who opines, he has grave concerns over “the extent to which people who present empirical evidence counter to prevailing [social justice] beliefs, are met with ad hominem denunciations and with efforts to suppress their evidence.”

Quite revealing don't you agree? 😎

Buffet has certainly made his mark, but I always kind of leaned more to his mate, Charlie Munger.

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On 11/1/2024 at 12:47 PM, Boomer54 said:

Let's be frank semantics or not they really do play us as though they must think we are fools.

Who is Frank Semantics? I've heard of Frank Sinatra is he a tribute act 😅

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20 minutes ago, Phil xxkr said:

Who is Frank Semantics? I've heard of Frank Sinatra is he a tribute act 😅

it’s Frank Spencer alias Sir Keir St.’Armor 

Malc 

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