When I was in elementary school, actually all the way up until I graduated high school, I was continually scolded by my teachers of mathematics because I skipped the steps they wanted written out explicitly to show that I understood the methodology. At the time, I did not fully comprehend that they needed to see the steps that my mind had already processed without the need to write them down because I needed to prove to them that the understanding was indeed present.

Unfortunately, I have retained that habit of skipping explicitly listing the steps in my reasoning, assuming that others will follow the same path of reasoning I have trod.

My assumption has been proven to me in the comments here to be horribly wrong.

So, tomorrow, Friday, I will explicitly lay out my reasoning underlying a recent post, and I have a new post in the works that I will also tailor such that is very clear even to those whose vision is distorted by the most biased glasses.

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A note to those who cry “partisan”, be very careful before using that accusation, for in making it you label yourself as much or even more so than those whom you accuse of that sin.

Some comments and trackbacks got lost when I recently tried to upgrade my WordPress installation. I will try to restore the comments from the emails I received, but the trackbacks will likely not be put back up because I do not know how to recover them.

My apologies to those who did trackback and had the pings lost.