Not “inference” (deduction), but “implication” (suggestion). The premise in the first panel implies (suggests) that “more sleep equals more brain power,” but it’s a leap to argue that the character in the second panel has drawn that conclusion.
That’s actually early economics, before reality came along and introduced the concept of “diminishing returns”. Unfortunately, there are still people today who think that Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) was the final word on the subject. Pretty much every Nobel Prize that’s been handed out for economics in the 21st Century was for work showing how one or another aspect of Smith’s thesis was grossly oversimplified and/or based on unrealisstic assumptions.
On RichardSR’s comment. I find it interesting that we try to understand economics to the last detail when a good deal of what powers it is human greed and lust for control, emotions and human characteristics that must be hard to model or reduce to simple equations.
The more you know, the more you realize there is to learn. So perceptually, the people who know more are those who recognize how very much they never can know.
BTW, there are studies which indicate that a regular lack of sufficient time asleep increases the build up of plaques associated with dementia. There are multiple studies indicating that sleep has a wonderful function of being when physical debris is cleaned from the brain.
Phred Premium Member about 6 years ago
Its worse. He ‘thinks’ he knows everything. Reality is otherwise.
cocavan11 about 6 years ago
Not “inference” (deduction), but “implication” (suggestion). The premise in the first panel implies (suggests) that “more sleep equals more brain power,” but it’s a leap to argue that the character in the second panel has drawn that conclusion.
pnmiq about 6 years ago
All I know is that I am way smarter asleep than awake. And my family tells me I make more sense asleep, also.
Bruce1253 about 6 years ago
To pull up an old chestnut: Thanks to science we are learning more and more about less and less, pretty soon we will know everything about nothing.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 6 years ago
That’s actually early economics, before reality came along and introduced the concept of “diminishing returns”. Unfortunately, there are still people today who think that Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) was the final word on the subject. Pretty much every Nobel Prize that’s been handed out for economics in the 21st Century was for work showing how one or another aspect of Smith’s thesis was grossly oversimplified and/or based on unrealisstic assumptions.
cervelo about 6 years ago
On RichardSR’s comment. I find it interesting that we try to understand economics to the last detail when a good deal of what powers it is human greed and lust for control, emotions and human characteristics that must be hard to model or reduce to simple equations.
cervelo about 6 years ago
P.S. I’n not an economist… just to be clear.
Kind&Kinder about 6 years ago
What was so was so, what was not was not
Now, I am a man, world have changed a lot
Some things nearly so, others nearly not
There are times I almost thinkI am not sure of what I absolutely know
Very often find confusion
In conclusion, I concluded long ago"
—partial lyrics from “A Puzzlement” song inThe King And IDgwphotos about 6 years ago
“Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.” Proverbs 20:13
SukieCrandall Premium Member about 6 years ago
The more you know, the more you realize there is to learn. So perceptually, the people who know more are those who recognize how very much they never can know.
BTW, there are studies which indicate that a regular lack of sufficient time asleep increases the build up of plaques associated with dementia. There are multiple studies indicating that sleep has a wonderful function of being when physical debris is cleaned from the brain.