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Excerpt from the PDF: The related (but not identical) terms “global warming” and “climate change” are both misleading—perhaps even dangerously so—and therefore should be replaced. I recommend “trendular atmospheric depatternization” as [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: Nader states that “what I hope will be especially helpful, in this very different world we inhabit, are my memories of the traditions in which my childhood [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: I should perhaps begin by noting that humans as individuals have survival needs (for food and water), and that our species also has a survival need, that [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: I am in broad agreement with Barrie Wilson’s claim that the — Jesus Movement came to replaced — under the leadership especially of Paul of Tarsus — [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: My object here is to develop a scenario that “explains” the development of human traits discussed by Dacher Keltner: Kindness, embarrassment, smile, laughter, tease, touch, love, compassion, awe. [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: If moral-like behavior is observed with a given animal, the first fact to keep in mind is that behavior that one perceives as “moral-like” reflects one’s own concept [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: The scenario that I develop here stems from certain initial assumptions: The economy is an exchange one, with exchanges involving money (rather than barter). The economic [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: I was brought up to believe that to be a human being one must recognize that one has responsibilities, and must accept those responsibilities. I was [...]
Christianity is fraught with problems, which raises the question: Why, then, does it continue in existence? My brief answer: It is functional in the context of our societal system—a claim that I will expand on later. First, though, I would like to produce a catalog of Christianity’s deficiencies, attempting not to repeat unduly what I stated in the earlier essay. Read on to download the full PDF.
With grouping classifications, in contrast, one’s starting point is a collection of individual units of some given type—whether people, houses, shopping centers, etc. One then selects some given variable—one that can be measured on a continuous scale (e.g., ratio, interval, percent, etc.)—and then determines for each individual (or a sample of same) its numerical ―value on that variable. One can then either ―feed these numbers into a grouping program (univariate) or—more typically—do the same for a series of other variables, and then feed the resulting numbers into a grouping program (multivariate). To read more, download the full PDF here.
