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[QUOTE]Originally posted by homing pigeon: [QB] You know, guys, your argument about whose common sense IS commonsense is faulty. It should be fairly easy to define common sense using the "central limit theorem" that we use as basis for all biomedical, social and behavioural research. The gist of it is that most people are "middling" in all their characteristics and will aggregate towards a central point and there will be a few scattered around it on both sides, less as you go further out. More about that on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem This distribution is represented by the normal distribution curve which you all saw in high school. http://i7.tinypic.com/34dn5kx.jpg The mean value, right at the middle of the curve will represent the point where most number of observations (number of people agreeing on a certain concept of common sense, here) will be seen. The majority of people (68%) will lie within one standard deviation of the mean and 95% will fall within two standard deviations of the mean. The remaining 5% on both sides will be the "extremists" :D When this distribution was used in biomedical studies, behavioural scientists didnt think it was applicable to them but LO nad BEHOLD, it turned out it does apply....so if you ask a group of people "what is LOve" for example, you'll find a central aggregation of ideas at some point and a scatter around it. Similarly if you give them a list of choces for what can be counted as commonsense and what not the majority will aggregate within one standard deviation of the mean.....this could also be used to identify who are the "mainstream"....It should make "sense" :D that it is where the majority is. Now, how do you,Pigeon, know that your views are shared by the majority. It should be fairly easy, in a country, like Egypt to know what is the majority concept of something if you live there. It can be seen on Arabic speaking discussion boards as egyptianoasis, egyptiantalks, normandy...where you can clearly see an internet community (dynamic) where the ideas that are perpetuated by salafis (niqab, abrogation and the like)... are received with horror, disbelief, outrage, sarcasm....and then the number of members who start posting what they know supported by evidence hugely outnumbering the few salafis who are trying to shove in those concepts. And what's more, the proofs make sense, too :D and are obtained from reliable sources. The story is repeated over every one of those boards. Time goes and comes and people change and the same story keeps on repeating itself over those boards. Another proof is the sheer number of books that keep on being published by mainstreem muslim clerics to respond to these allegations and describe them for what they are.Unfortunately they dont get translated because the focus of these books is to protect the muslim society from being drawn into these ideas. The third thing that I dont expect non muslims to share with me , but it is for muslims to look into is that we have been warned about the emergence of these groups and about what concepts they will try to spread among us: Our prophet called them KHAWAREG (OUTLIERS, in direct translation: explained as somebody who breaches the limits of religion) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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