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- 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...
- Sun May 20, 2007 1:33 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE Zimbardo lecture
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5413
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...
- Fri May 18, 2007 1:47 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Age of material in a stock
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26744
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...