>a quadriplegic is going to finish a 40 yard dash behind a non-quadraplegic
SOURCE? :D
This is not bashing on the OP who may be innocent of this, but I swear there is a type of person who demands DATA! with the fervor of faith in academics that would make the apostles blush. The eternal hyper-fearful spiritual serf afraid of disobeying the masters of the age and instantly CYA's by running to his priest. For all the SCIENCE they screech, they have no concept of what the kind of research that would produce the DATA! they want might even look like; far from curiosity, it is the absolute form of incuriosity: they want to enter all life's questions into SSRN and have The Anointed tell them the right answer.
I feel like this is most of humanity. Perhaps a central trait of humanity, following authority, the crowd, the tribe, whatever.
This has revealed the importance of being an authority who can spread truth, whereas I used to think seeking power was evil in of itself, now I see it as a powerful tool to spread goodness to those who only respond to power.
(I recently read the 48 laws of power and it was illuminating)
SOURCE? :D
This is not bashing on the OP who may be innocent of this, but I swear there is a type of person who demands DATA! with the fervor of faith in academics that would make the apostles blush. The eternal hyper-fearful spiritual serf afraid of disobeying the masters of the age and instantly CYA's by running to his priest. For all the SCIENCE they screech, they have no concept of what the kind of research that would produce the DATA! they want might even look like; far from curiosity, it is the absolute form of incuriosity: they want to enter all life's questions into SSRN and have The Anointed tell them the right answer.