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Do people walk around thinking "Only highly motivated extremely hard-working people are worth my time?" Do these people think that these so-called lazy people do not exist at any and every school? Sure, perhaps fewer overall exist at Berkeley than other places (primarily because of size), and who knows, even perhaps smaller percentages at the top schools in the country, but I know my friend who went to Harvard as an undergrad had a roommate who didn't work on his senior thesis at all for almost all of his time there, and when it came down to the wire, he calculated how many words per minute he had to produce to turn it in on-time. I really must ask about all students "How lazy is lazy?" and what is laziness?
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<p>Oh, come now, Drab. You are falling into the trap of articulated rationality. Just because a phenomenom cannot be defined to the point of perfect scientific precision doesn't mean that the phenomenom does not exist. Like the famous legal saying regarding the definition of obscenity as "you know it when you see it", the fact, is most social categories cannot be defined absolutely. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because not even our best legal jurists have been able to cleanly define the line between obscenity and art doesn't mean that obscenity does not exist at all. Similarly, just because nobody can give you a precise definition of laziness does not mean that laziness does not exist. In fact, most of the social sciences (of which I would include the field of education) are inundated with terms that have never been truly precisely defined on a purely numerical level.</p>