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by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att
Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:54 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: ANNOUNCE PCT and an economic emergency
Replies: 9
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ANNOUNCE PCT and an economic emergency

Posted by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att.net> Bill Powers, creator of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), a feedback or co= ntrol loop based view of human behavior, has grown concerned about some positiv= e feedback loops in the economic system and wrote a letter which I am passi= ng...
by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att
Sun May 20, 2007 1:33 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: ANNOUNCE Zimbardo lecture
Replies: 6
Views: 5288

ANNOUNCE Zimbardo lecture

Posted by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att.net> John Gunkler assets that anyone who runs for high public office and is elected is ethically unsuited for the job. Clearly that's a provocative statement (but I kind of like it). It also seems to me that there are a couple of stocks and...
by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att
Fri May 18, 2007 1:47 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: QUERY Age of material in a stock
Replies: 28
Views: 25867

QUERY Age of material in a stock

Posted by ""Fred Nickols"" <nickols@att.net> Douglas Franco provides an example of how incentives can confound a situation. >> A company sells appliances in a poor neighborhood by monthly >> payments, In the example above, Douglas asserts the existence of a ""wrong meas...