What’s the difference between a contrarian and a crackpot?
I am a bold thinker, you are a contrarian, he/she is a crackpot.
The degree of disrespect the speaker desires to convey to the labelled individual.
Crackpots are wrong contrarians.
(Not really. There’s this whole weird complex of personality traits that goes along with that.)
Someone who’s correctly contrarian on one issue is likely to be a crackpot on another. You hope that, by averaging contrarians together, the crackpot opinions will be averaged out.
What’s the difference between a contrarian and a crackpot?
I am a bold thinker, you are a contrarian, he/she is a crackpot.
The degree of disrespect the speaker desires to convey to the labelled individual.
Crackpots are wrong contrarians.
(Not really. There’s this whole weird complex of personality traits that goes along with that.)
Someone who’s correctly contrarian on one issue is likely to be a crackpot on another. You hope that, by averaging contrarians together, the crackpot opinions will be averaged out.