@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:I agree Kicky. Those who say "I could care less" are not listening to themselves;
they are saying the opposite of what they mean
Yes; when that happens (that thay contradict what thay intend to say)
that tells me that this is someone to whom careful examination
of logic is alien. This is
NOT a meticulously careful person.
I then wonder how many
OTHER mistakes of logic have escaped his attention.
This error shows relatively poorer organizational ability
than people who express themselves correctly.
Before I retired from the practice of law, I hired both professional staff
and support staff (prep. men, secretaries n clerks, etc.) for my firm.
If I had set aside funding for 3 jobs, my newspaper advertizing of those jobs
coud easily evoke hundreds of applicants,
some of whom were very attractive;
so it was a task of choosing the best of the best of the best applicants.
When an applicant committed errors of reasoning in front of me
or on his resume, this facititated ranking him lower
on the list of choices, behind more logically precise applicants.
This error of reasoning leads me to suspect that if I hire him or her
(in preference to other more logically perfect candidates)
that I will be buying a relatively higher proportion of mistakes
than if I choose someone who shows better reasoning ability.
In my personal experience both in hiring personnel
and in deciding to whom to grant scholarships from pools of applicants:
at decision-making time, it was too ofen a job of separating
the perfect from the extra super-perfect.
If I were going to engage the services of a surgeon,
I 'd like to hire a candidate who shows admirable attention to detail.
That instills better confidence in him.
When a person who applies for a job says: "I could care less"
when he means the opposite, that is almost as if he were wearing
a sign that said: "
CAUTION! CAUTION! I AM A CARELESS PERSON."
David
