dave weil said:

I can add that like many frontal cortex-disadvantaged when he's short
of an argument he resorts to forgery, quotes nonexistent sources and
makes sweeping affirmations about what his imaginary researchers are
doing.

OTOH there is[sic] also *very* intelligent persons who exactly[sic] act like this.

At least you never have to worry about beging accused of this.

I neglected to mention in my initial report that the researcher wanted to
know what Mikey does for a living. His model is somewhat tentative in the
achievement area and it has to be calibrated with an external reference. I
told him to assume Mikey is an assistant bookkeeper or similar level.