Supply and Demand

You misunderstood. I rhetorically asked why you insist on saying things that are completely untrue, commenting that supply and demand is a simple concept. I was referring to when you said that neither I nor few here could understand supply and demand. Here's the part I was responding to: This topic is unnecessary.The subtopic I thought was beginning to draw the thread off-topic was not supply and demand, which had only been touched on in passing once by you in Message 1036. It was the Keystone Pipeline.--Percy

If I had not quoted that portion anyone reading it wouldn't have known what "it" referred to, that it referred to supply and demand. Here's what you said: "I know you could never understand it, few posters here could, I'm surprised you only got 2 green dots." How would anyone know what "it" meant without the antecedent portion? They wouldn't, hence I had no choice but to include it.My own words made clear the focus was supply and demaind: It must be close to 100% of your posts that you don't understand either the topic or the message you're responding to or both.--Percy

There's a math problem likely familiar to many that goes like this: A bat costs a dollar more than a ball, and a bat and ball together costs $1.10. How much is a bat?Many people jump to the conclusion that this is a trivially simple problem and answer $1.00. They're wrong because it isn't a trivially simple problem. It's simple, but not trivially simple. You actually have to do some very simple math in your head, but here it is written out:

• bat = ball + $1.00
• bat + ball = ball + $1.00 + ball = $1.10
• 2 × ball + $1.00 = $1.10
• 2 × ball = $0.10
• ball = $0.05
• bat = ball + $1.00 = $0.05 + $1.00 = $1.05

This problem was mentioned in a recent Scientific American article as illustrative of the kinds of choices people have to make when problem solving or making decisions, like whether a problem is trivial or not. People who jump to conclusions rather than thinking things through are also more likely to accept conspiracy theories or unsupported claims based on how trustworthy they think someone is or how true the claim sounds.--Percy