Quote Originally Posted by kingnat
I would like to oppose Robb's notion to some extent, but in my experience, limited though it may be up till this point, most university faculty are pretty dense.

I'd like to be able to argue that people from the sciences are above these dregs as the core of their discipline REQUIRES it, but while I've met several people that are brilliant and thoughtful in nearly every aspect of their lives.. by-and-large even physics faculty members seem unable to apply basic scientific reasoning beyond their lab. Included in this are areas such as education, religion, parenting, and, yes, even the concept of poker as a skill game.

It's embarrassing quite frankly...
This made me LoL.

By the way, one of the great things about my poker experience is that it keeps me humble. There are tons of folks more adept at poker than I am, even though I should be good at it. I like the fact that learning to win consistently at successively higher levels requires flexible thinking. And there are lots of folks on FTR specifically who have proven that they are much better at it than me. So let me take my lumps as one of the embarrassingly dense faculty, albeit one who is trying to stay mentally agile in real-world pursuits. With mixed success. :P