[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 27 08:39:04 PDT 2004


T Fast wrote:


>What's true for a population need not be true for any single
>observation. Maybe you are all quite smart but collectively very
>dumb (the fallacy of composition works in both directions).

I can accept this. I gotta say, though, that watching Americans denounce Americans as stupid and greedy has pretty much cured me of the practice.

Doug



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