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Who, you might ask, am I? Well, no one in particular. What proof, you might demand, that I can have valid intelligent insights into these areas? Strange proof, I would have to answer. What proof is that, you say.

 I have a BA with concentrations in Sociology, Literature, History, Philosophy, Geography, and Political Science. Then again, I never went to college. I dropped out of high school. So how good can the degree be? Well, its fully accredited with the University of the State of New York at Albany, Regents External Degree program. How did I get it? I tested to it by challenging tests normally given to college graduates looking for admittance to Graduate programs. If I did better on one of these tests than a third of the graduates who had actually sat through college for four years, I was awarded the credits necessary for a major in that area. Its makes sense, if someone can answer questions posed by a select group of college proffessors as well or better than a third of college graduates in the subject, you might as well recognize that he knows as much about the subject as a graduate does. So, really, its a pretty solid reflection of some knowledge and understanding in these areas. However, you should understand that I only studied for one of these tests, I took the others off the top of my head without cracking a book. I just knew it. In the one test I studied for, Sociology, I studied for 12 hours the day before the test. My score was more than 600 out of a possible 800 points. Very respectable, it put me in the 92 percentile of graduates in that area. 91 percent had done worse than I. Strangely, that is not the only test I beat 600 points in. I also beat 600 in one of the subjects I did not study for. Philosophy. However, I did not make as high a percentil score against other graduates. You have to score about 600 to beat a third of college graduates in philosophy, or in mathematics. The thing that sets these two subjects apart, is that they are exact sciences. No real room for argument. Given a set of conditions, only one answer can be correct. So, all of the questions had answers that were clearly right or wrong. It takes a precise and logical mind to work effectively in these subjects. Being able to just walk in and do as well as graduates in this subject shows that I do indeed possess a precise and logical mind. Overall, if college proffessors have any ability to measure the probability of someone coming up with intelligent answers to social questions, these test results strongly suggest that I am a person who could be expected to do so.

 So, it may be an unconventional proof. It still can't really be ignored. I have a right to be listened to, and have my ideas considered. Though I do not claim that I am always right, or that these ideas are gospel, or divine revelation.

Click here to see a scanned image of my college transcript.
 

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