We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-20-2020, 11:52 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Yes. I have seen literature on the college board exams, and the tests seem designed not so much as intelligence tests but also as means of casting out cranks, scatterbrains, and and intellectually-lazy people. People who see a university education as an excuse for partying are going to get keen knowledge of alcoholic beverages and juvenile antics but not what  a good college is about. It is no more effective than the School of Hard Knocks, but it can teach what that non-accredited quasi-institution offers in much less time and at far lesser personal cost.

True enough, but not WEIRD. The point is that the Protestants encouraged everybody to read the Bible and form their own opinion. Reading causes the brain to significantly alter itself. The left and right sides communicate better. You get better at being analytical, worse at recognizing relationships. Your bondage is temporary to people who share similar skills and work together, rather than permanent to tribes or kin groups.

The point of showing Liberty University as a university that gathers and encourages WEIRDness is to show how people have not understood the shift.