In article
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Andy
Evans wrote:
What a load of irelevant cobblers! People call this thing a valve, a
tube, a bottle, or whatever, because that's what they were taught to
call it. Nine times out of ten they never even begin to think about
"why" it's called what it's called.

After the complete load of twaddle that was your last post you
certainly do seem to have a knack for talking total bull****. :-)

David.

David - it's called "psychology". You may have heard of it at some point
in your life. I'm a psychologist, I teach Performance Psychology at MA
level at one of the London universities, I have published 4 books on
psychology, two being textbooks. I have appeared over 80 times on TV and
Radio talking about various aspects of performance and media psychology,
including several appearances on the BBC News.

It should be fairly obvious to you that I'm well known and respected in
my particular field.

You're welcome to call psychology "twaddle" - that's your problem.

What I find curious about the above is that you have essentially shifted
responsibility for what you wrote away from being your own personal opinion
onto it being an established view in "psychology". Hence trying to deflect
any criticism of what you wrote onto a criticism of "psychology".

TBH I am less than convinced that all of what you wrote was *not* "twaddle"
just because you implicitly claim it is the established view of all
"psychologists". So far as I could tell it looks like the kind of jagonised
theorising that groups of people put up to cloud their lack of genuine
understanding. But of course I'm not a card-carrying "psychologist" so you
can easily dismiss my views. :-)

Rather than try to hide behind the equivalents of saying "people who wear
white coats and have diplomas on the wall all say the same" I'd have
thought it more convincing of you could have actually defended what you
said in terms of relevant evidence.

BTW I also have published many books and articles, have degrees, and have
been on the radio. Yet for some reason I don't think you have accepted all
the things I've written here in the past on electronics and audio. ;-

Above said, I would not have described what you wrote as "twaddle". The
phrase that sprang to my mind included the terms "jargon" and "waffle"...
This isn't my argument, though, so I'll leave you to David. 8-]

Slainte,

Jim

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