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The following is somewhat anecdotal but it fits with the statistics: Yes, people with 'lower' ATARs receive offers but (1) not many and (2) those that do receive offers usually satisfy some special entry criteria, e.g. rural or indigenous entry schemes. For normal entry there is a modest...

For those without the time (or endurance) the following visual summary should suffice:

Gah, such an unpleasant movie. Nonetheless, it is brilliant insofar as it embraces the art of cultivating unease.

Perhaps all possible worlds simply exist, in which case there is no luck involved.

The word you are looking for is 'intangible'. It can certainly be argued that god (of the 'omni' variety) exceeds our conceptual limitations and therefore can only be encountered as a feeling, or else through some kind of intangible, perhaps transcendental, experience. If we can't speak...

And what if it is a god which happens to reward people who tend towards evidenced beliefs (even if this excludes god) whilst ignoring/punishing those who take on irrational beliefs for which no evidence is forthcoming. The moral of this suggestion: Pascal's wager is premised on the assumption...

Please note: (1) Some notions of God are falsifiable (2) As with many falsifiable theories in science, if there is a poverty of information it may not be possible to make a secure affirmative or negative judgement, making an agnostic (= a-gnosis = without knowledge) not only sound but also...

Please note that the above trolls exist in order to disarm intelligent discussion on BoS and so are not worth responding to. Sincerely, KFunk

Typo on my part - I should have written that I would consider apes and dolphins persons before the braindead.

^ I find it interesting that you included the braindead individual on the first list. Certainly I would want to treat their body with dignity and respect, in conjunction with observation of death ceremonies that they may have deemed important, but I would tend to give more moral consideration to...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Not really. Media/cognitive bias entails that the savants tend to be the ones that are described and popularised. (unless, of course, you want to extend the label 'skill' to things like a fascination with the sound of opening soda cans)

The ILP is a mandatory research compenent of the UNSW MBBS degree. Exemption can be gained if one instead completes an honours year or if one is able to provide adequate evidence of past research, e.g. published papers or the award of an appropriate degree (e.g. a previous PhD or honours/masters...

A few test cases: - Fetuses - Children - The severely cognitively impaired - Psychopaths - The braindead - An indivual in deep sleep - The comatose - A brain in a vat (with a computer interface, perhaps) - Clones - Rational extraterrestrials - Advanced forms of articificial...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Haha, brilliant video, albeit scary (what to do when an individual claims the existence of class conflict --> react violently?).

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Just to check that we are on the same page - I had something like hysteresis in mind (i.e. where the system is not organised around a fixed [perhaps a priori] equilibrium point, but instead operates in historical time with responsiveness to historical...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Respekt.

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Aye, but basic economics at university is riddled with assumptions which are hard to maintain both empirically and philosophically: rationality, (near) perfect knowledge, fixed equilibrium, path independent outcomes, etc = bogus science (versus...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Obviously I dig social freedom. On the economy: (1) I am yet to come across a convincing argument for the universal efficiency of free markets (and I am tempted to say that much economic theorising boils down to aesthetics and power games) and (2) I value...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot P.S. Thanks for setting up a BoS scatterplot. It is quite cool to peruse.

Aye, it is the UNSW Combined BA/MBBS degree, though I have structured it as follows in order to do honours in arts (philosophy): 3 years medicine (phase 1 coursework + phase 2 clinical + a couple arts subjects) 1 year arts coursework 1 year arts honours (thesis + coursework, replacing...