HeavyG said:

Some places 8th grade is the equivalent of senior year.

kanye_twitty said:
Well that’s when they get married so they don’t need to go to “graduate school” (high school)

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Such an intelligent post from someone that works at a university.  You should be so proud of all that education that wasted your parents money for all those years. 8th grade mentality on view here John.  Let’s move the bar up a bit to high school level posts….lol.  Your not impressing the new member with your supreme knowledge, based on your immature posts.  The new members are going to look at your post, your profile pic, and signature line and conclude that you are a “nut case”. 

Which grade do they teach students the difference between “your” and “you’re” ?  Is it before or after 8th?  

When people, especially publicly, correct others’ mistakes, a lot of that has to do with signaling to other people,” says Robert Kurzban, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on the nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life. “People are trying to signal their expertise, because being able to identify mistakes indicates that you know more about something than the person who committed the error.”

Those who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and, according to Benoît Monin, a psychology professor at Stanford University, displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. “The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,” he says. “If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can make JIC feel good about himself.

kanye_twitty said:

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Such an intelligent post from someone that works at a university.  You should be so proud of all that education that wasted your parents money for all those years. 8th grade mentality on view here John.  Let’s move the bar up a bit to high school level posts….lol.  Your not impressing the new member with your supreme knowledge, based on your immature posts.  The new members are going to look at your post, your profile pic, and signature line and conclude that you are a “nut case”. 

Which grade do they teach students the difference between “your” and “you’re” ?  Is it before or after 8th?  

When people, especially publicly, correct others’ mistakes, a lot of that has to do with signaling to other people,” says Robert Kurzban, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on the nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life. “People are trying to signal their expertise, because being able to identify mistakes indicates that you know more about something than the person who committed the error.”

Those who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and, according to Benoît Monin, a psychology professor at Stanford University, displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. “The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,” he says. “If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can make JIC feel good about himself.

So liberal university professors are now a reliable source of fact?  I am so confused. 

littlerascal56 said:

kanye_twitty said:

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

littlerascal56 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Such an intelligent post from someone that works at a university.  You should be so proud of all that education that wasted your parents money for all those years. 8th grade mentality on view here John.  Let’s move the bar up a bit to high school level posts….lol.  Your not impressing the new member with your supreme knowledge, based on your immature posts.  The new members are going to look at your post, your profile pic, and signature line and conclude that you are a “nut case”. 

Which grade do they teach students the difference between “your” and “you’re” ?  Is it before or after 8th?  

When people, especially publicly, correct others’ mistakes, a lot of that has to do with signaling to other people,” says Robert Kurzban, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on the nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life. “People are trying to signal their expertise, because being able to identify mistakes indicates that you know more about something than the person who committed the error.”

Those who engage in public corrections of this sort often are looking to feel good about themselves, and, according to Benoît Monin, a psychology professor at Stanford University, displays of language all-knowing-ness provide a ready-made, two-pronged opportunity to do so. “The way we evaluate our competence is relative to other people,” he says. “If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can make JIC feel good about himself.

So liberal university professors are now a reliable source of fact?  I am so confused. 

Confused? John is a liberal university professor.  He can’t dispute other liberal university professors can he?  That would be unethical at the least! Like calling the kettle black?  

HeavyG said:

Yeah, I'm curious now also - are you a P.E. in Kansas or another state?

Legume said:

What is “in engineering?”

You have an engineering degree?

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Langner91 said:

Legume said:

What is “in engineering?”

You have an engineering degree?

Since when do you need a degree to refer to your profession around here?

Chef, no.  Engineer, yes?

Engineers are almost as pretentious as doctors, but none of them compare to professors.