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People have opinions about everything.

And while deep learning algorithms set to work on determining how often those opinions turn out to represent reality throughout history are either still running with no end in sight…

Or, have crashed due to human programming errors…

Preliminary data suggests that in general…

humans are no more accurate at forming opinions that represent reality at age 8 than they are at age 80…

And, even this was far below the threshold of coin flipping between the actual answer and utter nonsense.

(seven year old opinions were excluded from the study because of their uncanny ability to recognize nonsense…

and, by elimination, choose the correct answer every time.)

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