Monday, December 30, 2019

Ranking of University Attended Does Not Correlate Well With Adult Well-Being

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More on this in a Q&A format in the post right above . It's worth understanding the relationships between the multiple statistics...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Complex Dynamic Systems Like Cells, Humans, and Nations Cannot Avoid Cycles of Paroxysmal Disillusionment and Suffering

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The following principles apply to any dynamic complex system, including organisms, individual people, or organizations - corporations, natio...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Three Levels of Operations in Organizations

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Humans are unspeakably complex objects, and the associations they form and the way their behavior affects those associations and is affected...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Alternative History #8: Ancient East Indian Settlement of Australia

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For the previous installment, see Alternative History #7: German-Led Native Shock Troops in California . I've often wondered why Aust...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Religious Adherents: Bad Stripe Not Visible, But Is This Data Meaningful?

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Found this map at Perell.com . Whenever I see cultural maps of the U.S. like this one, I look for the Bad Stripe, a coherent area that pops...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Cause and Effect in Complex Systems - Think in Terms of Reinforcement Cycles

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In the last post , I wrote about the virtuous cycle of labor gradually getting more valuable, driving the development of machines to extend ...

The Value of Labor Over Time Is Still Increasing Over Time, Even Since the 1980s

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As time moved forward, early economists increasingly appreciated the value added by the labor component. In the mid-1700s the physiocrats (...