More on WQ

I thank my readers for their attention to the important issue raised in this post. Special thanks to those who offered formulas for calculating the WQ.

I'm inclined to go with the Weirdness Points formula (basically, the sum of a person's WP is equal to the number of normal people it would take to offset such person's weirdness).

I only have one hesitation.

The WP formula is, admittedly subjective.

You might think that I am concerned that we will, over time, like university professors, suffer from weirdness inflation, giving higher weirdness grades than people really deserve.

On the contrary. I am concerned about exactly the opposite.

I am concerned that after going to shul with certain people for ten years or more, the WQ committee will UNDERVALUE their respective weirdness. Indeed, one gets used to profound weirdness over time and is prone to discounting the severity of the weirdness.

We will have to be careful about this issue. Perhaps we should appoint a weirdness ombudsman to keep us honest.

(A final word. Lest you accuse me of sexism, while I use the masculine pronoun when describing weirdos, rest assured that there are quite a few female members who are likely to accumulate very high WPs.)