In a world that celebrates the art of persuasion, the persuasiveness of a statement and its truth may be entirely uncorrelated. To assess the substance of an idea you have to strip it of all its appeal. Beauty and ugliness are irrelevant.
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I was thinking "normally, people's ability in rhetoric is unequal mostly due to differences in natural aptitude; giving everyone training evens out differences". Of course training can also increase differences, but also increase ability to recognize & ignore rhetorical tricks.
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Yes, training tends to increase differences, because smart people usually learn more in the same amount of time.
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