<p>Well, no, you're not arguing, you just keep pressing your points. When I raise issues such as social reclusiveness and lack of experience, you not only don't back up your plan with facts and waive off concerns without second guessing, you then resort to personal attacks.</p>
<p>What you've failed to consider (this is not the first time; your other post about geniuses revealed the same arrogance and lack of attention for the knowlege of others) is that perhaps I am very knowledgeable about a certain field of study (or three). You failed to think for one second that, well, maybe blairt has some sort of thing she likes to research and is completely devoted to. Well! Now that you've considered it, InquilineKea, I'll tell you all about my "passions." I like psychology (behavioral science, evolutionary causes, sexual identification and human mating rituals, eg, flirting, behavioral disorders, with great attention to affective disorders and their association with creativity and intelligence), sociology (wealth distribution, cultural ideals, class consciousness and discrimination, and specific political and social institutions and their effect on both society and individuals, and ways they can be reformed to achieve maximum productivity), and philosophy (philosophy of education, epistemiology/tok, ethics, aesthetics). Obviously, these all blend together quite well, and I rarely approach one as an individual study, but simply as my "research." I have a subscription with a major online academia/science journal database, and read professional websites that pertain to my fields of study. I read them with pleasure, soaking up every little factoid without effort. But I would never dare assume any authority on the subject, like you and your arrogant demeanor has here and on a number of other threads. I am intelligent enough to know that I do not know what I don't know. I know that although I may be able to fully understand a given article or journal, I am not the author, or even the research assistant behind that work. I am a high school student who enjoys reading about all of the work these succesful academics have done. I wish I could do research with one of them, and bask in their presence of knowledgeable glory, but I am not entitled to that. Nor am I entitled to then in turn write my own work with the slighest fraction of authority on the subject, for, again, I do not know what I don't know, and I do not know what I do not understand, and will have absolutely no way of finding out until, well, I know. I do know that the details count when approaching advanced topics and doing studies on new theories, and again, what I don't know will affect my interpretation of such research. For me to then write about this and post on the internet as fact, is downright unethical and inimical to knowledge at worst and unread by anyone other than yourself at best. You can't just assume authority on a subject and start spewing off fallacies for people to then read and accept at face value. It's downright wrong. Not to mention sophomoric.</p>
<p>The two examples you posted aren't pertinent to your case. The first was a college student doing research -- not a high school student who reads journals in his spare time. The second was a high school student doing math problems (albeit challenging ones) -- not unlike the homework for a challenging math course at a top prep school.</p>