Does your behavior change when it has been predicted? Then you are acting in accordance with reflexivity: Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects. In…
DetailsThings floating around in these present times… “>”Food insecurity” isn’t an ongoing concern in the United States, as leftist hand-wringers claim. The methodology (not to mention special interested) that drove the study were flawed. A not-so-funny joke in our government: The Army, given $4.3 billion to track spending, can’t track spending. Psychopaths have bad sniffers.…
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I know a few individuals who fit the troll-bill exactly, feigning outrage when called out for the true nature of their interactions on Facebook…: If you have siblings, you no doubt harbor a hint of the sadist; who hasn’t delighted in getting the occasional rise out of a younger brother by petting his cat after…
DetailsCass Sunstien, friend/advisor to the prez, is a man who has advocated all sorts of subtle tyrannies, including fines or jail time for voicing “conspiracy theories.” His most influential book, Nudge, advocates a social science technocracy based on the work of Daniel Kahneman and other influential psychologists. Sunstien now has another book, the review of…
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Though not for the faint of heart, I would like to link to a column today that asks the question “what exactly are we encouraging here?” of gender-confused socio-politics. Mental health should be the focus when a person is born believing that mutilation of their own flesh is the path to happiness. We as a…
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I forgot. Campbell’s Law is as follows: “The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.” Read the Wikipedia entry…
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