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It’s a legitimate reason. It’s not being able to concentrate because of nervousness.</p>
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I really dislike it when people learn just enough about logical fallacies to misuse them and feel oh so smart doing so.</p>
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<p>A priori I would agree, and it makes sense prima facie. But to suppose that this is always the case is definitely making too much of the undistributed middle. I mean we have one guy here but that doesn’t mean a dicto simpliciter</p>
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Hahaha, nice. The OP could certainly learn a thing or two from you…</p>
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I’d agree, but I take a childish delight in pointing out incorrect use of logical fallacies.</p>
<p>Edit: Alas, I did not see TCBH’s post before I posted this :/</p>
<p>Ok Billy, insult me by saying I only have a rudimentary knowledge of logical fallacies (even though you guys were strawman-ing me earlier), but then laugh in approval when some kid comes and tries to look smart by posting a couple of basic latin phrases. Lol yeah you’re cool.</p>
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[Oh</a>, this Trope was made for this.](<a href=“http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint]Oh”>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint)</p>
<p>Actually, he was just poking fun at you, not trying to sound smart. Come back when you take a formal logic course.</p>
<p>But anyway, if someone really is smart, they WILL score well on a test, unless they have a major anxiety disorder. </p>
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<p>There are several reasons as to why some people are “bad-test takers”, anxiety being only one of them. Your comments are so offensive and arrogant. Also, what is “mentally-dumb”? You can’t come up with a better term? If anyone here is unintelligent, it’s you :)</p>
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When someone’s mind can’t talk?</p>
<p>My heart pounds, I sweat, and I sometimes get headaches and a cloudy thought process before tests. I do have anxiety issues though.</p>
<p>“Standardized tests can’t measure initiative, creativity, imagination, conceptual thinking, curiosity, effort, irony, judgment, commitment, nuance, good will, ethical reflection, or a host of other valuable dispositions and attributes. What they can measure and count are isolated skills, specific facts and function, content knowledge, the least interesting and least significant aspects of learning.”
— Bill Ayers</p>
<p>I smell a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>I smell a terrorist.</p>
<p>I smell a communist revolutionary.</p>
<p>I smell a capitalist enslavement.</p>
<p>“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”</p>
<p>Put those last four scents together and you could make a nice conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>@BillyMc: One of the most influential books ever written! Are you a Communist?</p>
<p>I smell an italian fascist.</p>
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<p>Thanks! I wrote it.</p>
<p>The liberal agenda here is disgusting. My father, his father, and HIS father took standardized tests. We won’t bow down to the prevailing liberal ideas here. We have trade-schools and the military for “bad test takers.”</p>