Update on 'Are you rational'

The problems of inadequate research, jumping to conclusions, and the need to meet a deadline are all evident from this post and the earlier one. This has necessitated me to post another separate post with an update.

I wanted to post the earlier post last evening, so to meet the deadline I went ahead and posted with insufficient material (which would have been available had I looked at Arunn's posts a little more in detail.

On a more leisurely look at Arunn's posts, I found that there was a separate link to a post and a site where you could have your worldview 'assessed'. That might have been a more appropriate link than the link to the discussion of rationality vis-a-vis, Godel.

Enough of the blah... here are the links:
What is your Worldview ?
Arunn's Worldview quiz.

Now here is a link that would justify my haste in producing an 'incomplete' post - Worse is Better.

Where do I stand as far as my Worldview is concerned?
My results are given below (on a max score of 10):
Your rating regarding science/non-science: 8
Your rating regarding values & humankind: 7
Your position on the worldview spectrum: (7,8)

Publish or Plagiarise, else Perish

This is an blogpost by Prof Arunn Narasimhan, a faculty at IIT, Madras. Though this post is related to plagiariam in science, I think it could apply equally well in any other field. The post is about what constitutes plagiarism, and what pressures drive the plagiarist.

Well worth having a look. Read on - Publish or Plagiarise, else Perish.

The post appears in nOnoscience, a blog(?)/site "on Science, Math and related research, educational and social issues, with occasional humor and personal asides and plain blah", maintained by contributions from Arunn and Lakshmi.