A psychological hypothesis

[Furious Pete]

Reading your discussions and comments and way of argumenting I can\'t help thinking it would be extremely funny to have you personality tested using the classical Myers-Briggs inventory, that could be found for free here: http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types (hope this is okay TGJB, otherwise just delete it).

Maybe it even could be useful for structuring even better discussions!

I\'m predicting a lot of \"architects\", \"logicians\", \"logisticians\" and \"debaters\" out there! And for TGJB, maybe the Entrepreneur?? (read more about it here if you want a better foundation of what that actually means (and if my prediction is right, you do!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator)

What is the optimal personality type for horsebetting??

What I find specially curious about this is this sentence right here: \"Those who prefer thinking tend to decide things from a more detached standpoint, measuring the decision by what seems reasonable, logical, causal, consistent, and matching a given set of rules. Those who prefer feeling tend to come to decisions by associating or empathizing with the situation, looking at it \'from the inside\' and weighing the situation to achieve, on balance, the greatest harmony, consensus and fit, considering the needs of the people involved. Thinkers usually have trouble interacting with people who are inconsistent or illogical, and tend to give very direct feedback to others. They are concerned with the truth and view it as more important.\"

Apply this with the methodology for making TG-figures.. WOW! I can sense some dissonance here! No wonder you\'re all just a tad f****d up!! Can you now understand the comfort of denying those parts of the real world that does not quantify that easily, or logically reason with the observables, like the Ragz-religion do?

TGJB. You girl.



Love,

Pete.

[smalltimer]

Interesting and looks like fun.  Printed and saved.

[eljayar52]

Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. Two great books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I think relevant to investing in horse races.

[Rich Curtis]

\"Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. Two great books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I think relevant to investing in horse races.\"


You\'re OK, Eljayar. Add \"Antifragile\" and you have the three best horse racing books ever written.

[eljayar52]

Thanks for the nod Rich. I will get Antifragile.

[sekrah]

eljayar52 Wrote:
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> Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. Two great
> books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I think relevant to
> investing in horse races.

These two books should be required reading for all youth in this country.

[SoCalMan2]

eljayar52 Wrote:
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> Thanks for the nod Rich. I will get Antifragile.


Agreed.  I loved the first two books and somehow missed that Antifragile came out/existed.  Will be the next book I read.