W T F ? Are you from North Carolina or from a distant galaxy ?Originally Posted by Romes
What! Did Don miss a typo?
Some of the troubling issues in the text where things like basic strategy errors,
"where" should be "were"
Don, you mention Jerry Patterson and are obviously referring to the TARGET system, which I heard bits and pieces stating it was pure voodoo with recommendations such as playing at a table with full ashtrays for some reason. I have no intimate familiarity with it at all other than hearing the generalization that "the method is beyond the mathematics of the game", which puts it into beautiful downtown Nonsenseland right then and there but could you elaborate on your knowledge of any of the gory details of what has defined it as bogus? This "Charlie's angels of blackjack" thread seems like an appropriate place as any to bring up things that just don't look quite right.
Just how good are the Charlie's Angels of Blackjack? Can they count their way out of a wet paper bag? Can they look down to count their tits and come up with the same number twice in a row? Something I've seen over the years on occasion are people that think they are a whole lot better at blackjack than what they really are. An interesting study from Cornell University confirms some of this, see attached link. Can you add some glitz, some glamor and provide a smokescreen for a lack of actual skill? Can you actually tell people that ashtrays mean anything at all because their knowledge base is insufficient to confirm differently?
http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/...er_dunning.pdf
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The book was mostly unreadable drivel. A waste of my space on my Kindle. At least it was "free" through my Kindle Extra or whatever the service is called.
I gave up in the chapter in which one of the girls apparently slept with the team "bodyguard" and two of them saw ghosts in their hotel rooms. Yes, it was really that stupid.
Opinions and Commentary on the Gaming Industry: The Bear Growls
Good article. In my profession (CPA), I often judge a staff member's stage of development and/or career potential by where they stand on this continuum:
1) unconsciously incompetent, 2) consciously incompetent, 3) consciously competent, 4) unconsciously competent.
The article basically says that those that are at the lowest level ("unconsciously incompetent") tend to remain in that state because they don't have the cognitive abilities to realize their incompetence. The only way out is to have a teacher that can deliver the appropriate negative feedback and a student that has the humility and teachability to receive it. NOT EASY...
Only someone as consciously competent as me could have been roasted as bad as I was yesterday - such is the nature of the beast.
A few weeks ago, I was playing a $25 min game. The unconscious incompetent sitting next to me was needling me all night, criticizing my doubles as well as my index plays. Of course, I said nothing. He did not take advantage of his doubles, stating he had lost heavily the prior few days, and dud not want go put more money at risk - go figure. His basic stunk, though he thought ut was above par. Meanwhile, as his stack of chips and continual buyins stiffened the tray, like a viagra pill, tray pressure was relieved, as evidenced by the mounds of green and black in front of me, contributing to my personal AP relief fund. He may have been moderately successful in other endeavours, as losses needed to be supported from some source - possibly.
I think a category that may have been overlooked, and likely not researched, is the incompetent competent. This would describe my wife's brother. Forty years ago, he made great money. Problem was it mostly went up his nose. Today, he is a conspiracy theorist man of the land. What a waste of life. All the brains in the world gone up in powder. He is not welcome at my house.
I think an interesting cross reference study would be competence level by attitude. It really does take all kinds to make this world. I'm out of town right now. I enjoyed a deluxe type of full continental breakfast this morning. The older bus lady, noting no toast, commented to me that there was a toaster at the far end if the buffet. I responded that I knew that, that my back was very sore, and that it would hurt me to make the toast, stand while waiting and return. With a most pleasant attitude, she asked what I wanted, further ask g what would be preferable jam, and got it for me. N my view, this was an xcellent example of superior and friendly attitude. I slipped her, specifically, a $5 tip, over and above the normal table gratuity for the actual server bringing coffee around.
Let us salute both the conscious and unconscious incompetents - for it is they that support our activities.
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