I recommand reading "Lucifer principle" by Howard Bloom, who insists on group selection (for instance unemployed men tend to die just like useless cells in our...
I have some time at work to kill, so I thought I'd make a post regarding Psychometric Neuroticism and our impressions involving Field Dependence. The actual...
... But does UA lead to rules or do rules lead to UA? Did RC's, compared to Prots, become less UA after Vatican II? Do people accustomed to living by detailed...
... Yes. ... Again, that's not a very easy question to answer. A bunch of individuals who were all uncertainty avoiding might not create a society high on...
From the rough draft of my book, These Hidden Truths, page 122. --Mark _______________ A Quick Review: Culture and Personality Revisited But before reviewing...
from http://www.prometheism.net/articles/review.html "Beyondism! Whatever is it? It is a new system of ethics designed to bring about the improvement of the...
... ams: I'm not sure "solid" is a good substitute for "heritable." True, such traits are more resitant to environmental effects, but only because the genes...
... ams: Possibly. I've only known one Amishman, but he had adapted to urban life. But part of the story at the link below shows that the Amish are certainly...
... Forming a united front is collectivism, the inverse of IND. Fearing outsiders is xenophobia and a function of UAI. I don’t think the two are the same....
... You may have a point here. But I think the matter needs a further look. I wish someone would administer a UA inventory to the Amish. With their plethora...
... Be sure you're using the terminology correctly. "UAI" is short for Uncertainty Avoidance (and we think the "I" is for "Inventory"). If the Amish have...
... Perhaps they have a strong need to believe that they agree with "good" people and "disagree" with bad people and reinterpret anything said to them -- by...
... Aw, you're still miffed about the way I "misinterpret" your ideas about the pursuit of truth, aren't you? I think you'll find I'm very receptive to people...
... Something else that occurred to me: Mark seems to be rather high on psychopathy (an understatement?), whereas I am rather low on psychopathy. Might...
... ams: Well, Mark, you just have to understand my terminology. Sometimes I use the word low to mean "low" and sometimes I use the word low to mean "high!"...
... Do you mean *psychoticism* (Trait P)? Psychopathy is trait criminality/fanatical-pseudosocial-zealousness, today known as Antisocial Personality Disorder...
... It's a possibility. But my personal experience says that two low-A individuals with half a brain between them will quickly realize that they have to...
... Yes, that was quite sloppy of me. Psychoticism is more correct than psychopathy. AndI no more meant by "high on psychopathy" to say that Mark is a...
OK Alypius, I just checked, and Hosftede reports that UAI has been (slightly) rising over recent decades, so this argument is moot. To go further, however, I...
Section 6.9, Summary of Chapter 6, has been added: http://www.efn.org/~callen/ToC.htm#chapter6 Excerpt: -- [...] the Beyondist position is that man as an...
I've been working on a game for a while, and I'd like to see if anyone has any comments on the anthropological aspects. The game simulates (more or less) the...
... ams: The Mongols' homeland in the Gobi desert was not suitable for farming. That's why the Chinese expansion stopped at the desert's edge. Except in bad...
In reading your message, it gradually dawned on me that we have completely different conceptions of technological and knowledge development - my own conception...
I've been wondering for a while about a puzzle presented by the Ashkenazim. They seem phenomenally, paranoiacally racist, yet at the same time they dominate...
... ams: Other than Paul Gottfried, how many Jewish paleocons can you name? The "old" conservatives are the real conservatives. The "new" conservatives are...
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