Common sense and the study

Common sense is an error that is corrected with many years of study.

The following text is written in a slightly humorous, slightly ironic, slightly irrational, with the acumen of readers is enough to remove the idea would be to convey to.

To learn that 1 = 1 (one equals one), we may need a year to attend the school of first grade (primary).

When we assimilate the idea of 'identity', we take a big step, we build a strong intellectual foundation, we generate a rational core hard and resistant to change.

So much so that to accept that 500 = 20,000 (five equals twenty thousand), need:

- Not less than 15 years to forget that one is equal to one;
- Not less than two years to understand why 500 = 20,000; and
- A few months to accept that different can be the same.

I mean, if I pay $ 500 for an insurance company, this will give me a car worth $ 20,000, in the case of certain events occurring previously stipulated, for example:

- If I steal the vehicle and does not appear within 90 days;
- If I hurt someone and pay restitution of $ 20,000;
- If I make the mistake of straying from the road, falling into a river, get out alive, but the damage totaling $ 20,000.

For these reasons, we see that, under certain circumstances, 500 = 20,000.

With a little study, we come to know that 1000 = 10:000.000.

Indeed, those who study to conduct opinion polls, they know what the decision of a population, consulting only 1,000 of them.

Conclusion: common sense is a mistake that was corrected many years of study.

Note: original in Spanish (without translation by Google): El sentido común y el estudio

(This is Article No. 1,623)

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