Also... I'm realizing something here....
An interest in sports does not imply that your stupid....
it does suggest how social you are, and you 'define' yourself.
A guy who's into NewYork Mets, grew up in New York.
Loving the mets is a social thing. It shows how to connected to
the guys around you, and how much of 'just one of the guys' you were.
If you were not 'one of the guys' but a nerd sitting the library,
or playing a computer game by yourself, you would not 'like' the
new york mets or any other sports team.
If you like a sports team, and dislike the opposing team, shows
you level of socialization.
Nerds/Geeks are an abused/bullied folk, and HATE the regular
people that bullied them. These 'regular folk' are sports fans,
you are not 'of their group', and therefore you do not define yourself
as a sports fan.
If this is true, then I should be able to predict how many friends
you have on facebook based on how interested a guy is in sports.
erm....
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Just questions...
Psychopaths and Sociopaths don't have insecurities... why?
Fear of social rejection seems to be an evolutionarily valid... doesn't seem to be related to a persons ability to feel empathy. And insecurities doesn't seem to relate directly to any emotion.
Fear of social rejection seems to be an evolutionarily valid... doesn't seem to be related to a persons ability to feel empathy. And insecurities doesn't seem to relate directly to any emotion.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Personalization....
You come to a place you've never been before. Someone lived here before. Not you.
You know this place is not yours because none of your stuff is in this place. So you put your stuff in this place, and it becomes your place. Your stuff...
You take stuff from somewhere, and put it somewhere else. Get a delivery truck to transport stuff from where it used to be, to where you want it to be. You get to decide where to put this stuff so that makes it your stuff. And now this new place is yours because you put your stuff in your place.
REALLY? Is that all there is to personalization....?
You know this place is not yours because none of your stuff is in this place. So you put your stuff in this place, and it becomes your place. Your stuff...
You take stuff from somewhere, and put it somewhere else. Get a delivery truck to transport stuff from where it used to be, to where you want it to be. You get to decide where to put this stuff so that makes it your stuff. And now this new place is yours because you put your stuff in your place.
REALLY? Is that all there is to personalization....?
Monday, January 31, 2011
Fairness
Fairness is something that can only be established in certain (limited) conditions.
ie: You have two friends, they are hungry. You have two apples.
You give each friend one apple.
You have two hungry friends, and you are also hungry. You have two apples. This alteration makes fairness more difficult, and less precise. However, a fair solution still is easy to see; divide up the two apples in small enough pieces and each person gets an equal share.
You have two hungry friends, one hasn't eaten all day, one is slightly hunger. One Apple. Given the level of hunger is different, would it still be fair to give them equal shares of the apple? Is it fair to give the friend who hasn't eaten all day the entire apple?
Maybe get both friends to quantify their hunger, and use that as weights to measure what proportion of the apple each friend would get. (a messy solution for a messy situation).
Snap back to reality.... How about a more realistic example...
You have $500 in the bank. You have two children both starting college.
Both kids want to get into the same program; and each will need to pay a tuition of $250.
Here's a situation in which fairness can occur; Divide the $500 equally amongst the two kids.
You have $500, and two kids with different interests. One wants to get into a college program which costs $300, and the other kids program costs $200. Is it still fair to divide the $500 equally? Is it fair to divide the $500 unequally, to pay for their different interests?
You have $500, two kids. One wants to get into a college program that guarantees a job at the end, this program costs $500. The other child wants to get into a program that costs $100, which guarantees no job prospects.
....
In each example, I've taken a situation that calls for fairness, and added one more factor to consider. In life, most every situation has multiple dimensions, numerous factors..... They say that life isn't fair. I ask, how can it be.
Dare I say... it is unfair of people to want life to be fair.
ie: You have two friends, they are hungry. You have two apples.
You give each friend one apple.
You have two hungry friends, and you are also hungry. You have two apples. This alteration makes fairness more difficult, and less precise. However, a fair solution still is easy to see; divide up the two apples in small enough pieces and each person gets an equal share.
You have two hungry friends, one hasn't eaten all day, one is slightly hunger. One Apple. Given the level of hunger is different, would it still be fair to give them equal shares of the apple? Is it fair to give the friend who hasn't eaten all day the entire apple?
Maybe get both friends to quantify their hunger, and use that as weights to measure what proportion of the apple each friend would get. (a messy solution for a messy situation).
Snap back to reality.... How about a more realistic example...
You have $500 in the bank. You have two children both starting college.
Both kids want to get into the same program; and each will need to pay a tuition of $250.
Here's a situation in which fairness can occur; Divide the $500 equally amongst the two kids.
You have $500, and two kids with different interests. One wants to get into a college program which costs $300, and the other kids program costs $200. Is it still fair to divide the $500 equally? Is it fair to divide the $500 unequally, to pay for their different interests?
You have $500, two kids. One wants to get into a college program that guarantees a job at the end, this program costs $500. The other child wants to get into a program that costs $100, which guarantees no job prospects.
....
In each example, I've taken a situation that calls for fairness, and added one more factor to consider. In life, most every situation has multiple dimensions, numerous factors..... They say that life isn't fair. I ask, how can it be.
Dare I say... it is unfair of people to want life to be fair.
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