I thought that the use of the “most people believe” trick has been ridiculed so much and so often that nobody would dare use it any more. That isn’t true, however. A bizarre creature called Marty Nemko has published a very stupid piece in the Atlantic Monthly that contains the following pearl of wisdom:
Most people will also agree that, on average, women are more eager to have children and to be deeply involving in their upbringing.
Nemko apparently has no idea how idiotic he sounds. It’s sad that these “most people” Nemko claims to be familiar with haven’t cared to inform him that using one’s own unhealthy fantasies about “most people” as an argument makes him a laughing stock. I also wonder what it means “to be deeply involving in upbringing” and how the “average” Nemko blabbers about has been calculated.
This unintelligent person and a lousy writer has apparently made himself famous by bashing higher education. He has been harping on how “higher education is overrated” for decades. It’s funny how the grievously illiterate are always the ones to deny the value of education.
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