# The stereotypical doper **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186 "2011-03-02T08:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/21 "2011-03-02T20:31:02Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Dopers: sometimes you have to fight ignorance WITH ignorance! I don’t know about that…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/22 "2011-03-02T20:35:15Z")
My ten foot pole will not be used in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/23 "2011-03-02T21:18:29Z")
If a woman, she’s large and can’t get a date. If a man, he likes large women but can’t seem to find any. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/24 "2011-03-02T21:18:38Z")
Dopers are the masters of well-written recreational outrage. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/25 "2011-03-02T21:24:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Dopers over-generalize. That should read “ **All** Dopers over-generalize.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/26 "2011-03-02T21:25:36Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Paint with a broad brush much? My bigotry knows no bounds. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/27 "2011-03-02T21:47:57Z")
I don’t know if I’d be considered a stereotypical doper as I don’t think I post often enough. Hey, I’ve been here since July 2005 and am averaging 493 posts per year. What’s the average for long-timers? 1000 per year? More? Anyway, just seeing how many of the responses in this thread apply to me. > [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Dopers are liberal atheist cat lovers. Except the ones that aren’t. Well this covers all liberals, so me as well, as I absolutely despise cats. > [@Shodan](#): > > “Any fool in error can find a Google cite to back him up.” Yep. Applies to me. When I can be bothered to look up cites, that is. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Each doper is an expert in something. Yep. Ask me anything about clinical recruitment and retention GCP and HIPAA compliance. > [@faithfool](#): > > Dopers are tenacious. Yep. Sometimes even when I’m in the wrong. I do tend to release my grip when confronted with compelling evidence to the contrary of my assertion…at least I hope I do. 🙂 > [@Frodo](#): > > Dopers post in the SDMB The heck you say! > [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > I think mine would be: “Dopers: no topic too silly to argue vehemently about.” Guilty, so yeah, this is me. > [@Shodan](#): > > Dopers over-generalize. Yep, guilty of this one from time to time as well. > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Dopers are correct, correct, or are corrected. Well, um, huh? > [@Philster](#): > > Dopers are smart enough to figure out every problem in the world, from politics and economics to physics, computers and Quantum mechanics, but they can’t figure out the problems with their own lives. I’d have to say this one doesn’t really apply to me, thank goodness. I have a pretty good and satisfying life. It’s just the little ancillary things I have to deal with, and stupidity, that make me seem pissed off most of the time. 🙂 > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I think mine would be: “Dopers: no topic too silly to argue vehemently about.” Guilty as charged. > [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Dopers: sometimes you have to fight ignorance WITH ignorance! Oh boy, that one’s kind of rampant here, isn’t it? Anyway, perusing some of my previous posts, yeah. Guilty. > [@Projammer](#): > > Dopers slay sacred cows. Well, they try, but some a them cows just won’t stay kill’t. > [@gurujulp](#): > > The most arrogant reclusives you shall ever (sort of) meet! I’m not sure about the reclusive part, but arrogant, hoo-boy, yeah, that’s me. > [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > My ten foot pole will not be used in this thread. No one wants to see that. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If a woman, she’s large and can’t get a date. If a man, he likes large women but can’t seem to find any. Not me, thank goodness. Married, and to a svelte goddess…who reads my posts, so there you go. 🙂 > [@Waxwinged](#): > > Dopers are the masters of well-written recreational outrage. Typos notwithstanding, I’d like to believe my writing is at least understandable, even when I’m frothing about some slight that impacts my life not at all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/28 "2011-03-02T21:58:24Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > > [@EvilTOJ](#): > > > > Dopers are liberal atheist cat lovers. Except the ones that aren’t. > > Well this covers all liberals, so me as well, as I absolutely despise cats. Missed the edit window, but wanted to correct my response to **EvilTOJ** ’s post. No, not all liberals are atheists…however they should be. 🙂 The cat thing though? Yeah. Hate 'em. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/29 "2011-03-03T00:18:40Z")
Dopers are or they are not what they say they are. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/30 "2011-03-03T00:27:10Z")
Most Dopers have an IQ of 199, but the enlightened minority graciously tolerate our inferior intelligence anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/31 "2011-03-03T01:49:52Z")
All Dopers are armed to the teeth…with 1920s Style Death Rays. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/32 "2011-03-03T01:54:23Z")
Dopers: The second greatest joy is being first to post the best answer. The greatest joy is finding a fine point to demonstrate why it’s not quite the best answer. (IMHO, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/33 "2011-03-03T02:00:10Z")
Dopers are bio-homo-nano-diversity in action. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/34 "2011-03-03T02:11:27Z")
The stereotypical doper … a person of more ability than privilege with a better understanding of the humanities than the sciences, and too aggressive in defense of empiricism and logic to understand their limitations [Their most defining characteristic is that they can type AND use white space. Lots of sub groups can spell or use standard grammar, but this is one of the few places that people actually use upper case letters, standard punctuation, and line-breaks.] ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/35 "2011-03-03T02:17:07Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Yep. Ask me anything about clinical recruitment and retention GCP and HIPAA compliance. Oh, yeah? How do you get the PIs to respect the inclusion/exclusion criteria without stapling the regs to their foreheads? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/36 "2011-03-03T02:44:16Z")
-Atheist -Politically modern “progressive” -Middle class and professionals ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/37 "2011-03-03T02:53:15Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Dopers leave no nit unpicked And for all too many of those “liberal atheists with cats”, often no knit goes unpicked too. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/38 "2011-03-03T03:12:36Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > > > Dopers are correct, correct, or are corrected. > > Well, um, huh? How 'bout: Dopers’ statements are frequently correct. Furthermore, Dopers often correct other Dopers (when other Dopers make a mistake). Lastly, Dopers who make mistakes are often corrected by other Dopers. Hence Dopers are correct, correct, or are corrected. It’s not like I said Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/39 "2011-03-03T03:18:54Z")
As I once posted in alt.fan.cecil-adams, lo these many moons ago: SDMB [was: AFCA] - education and condescension in one easy to swallow package, two for the price of one. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/40 "2011-03-03T04:33:30Z")
> [@j66](#): > > Oh, yeah? How do you get the PIs to respect the inclusion/exclusion criteria without stapling the regs to their foreheads? That’s too easy. Bribe the central IRB and CROs to exert undue influence on the FDA to accept ridiculous, yet funny amendments to the protocol to weaken the i/e criteria. Promise your coordinators a Porsche for every 100 patients randomized. Sign a BPA with an obscure proxy of the CRO to take the heat for any coercion charges as you gleefully randomize patients with abandon who don’t have a chance in heck of surviving the retention phase of the trial. Finally, promise each patient $100 a visit, payable upon conclusion of the study of course, and see your LTFU problems disappear overnight. Next? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186.md?page=3)