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case. If people were independent, each making decisions in isolation, societies would indeed be predictable, because all those random decisions would add up to a fairly constant average. But when people interact, larger assemblies can be less predictable than smaller ones, not more.

Pedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

In essence, both Quetelet and Lord and Novick assumed that measuring one person many times was interchangeable with measuring many people one time.

Todd Rose • The End of Average

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

glances are cast at you as members seek to gain approval from authority. Your early comments are carefully scrutinized for directives about desirable and undesirable behavior.

Irvin D. Yalom • The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Here’s one way to understand the mechanism of action: compared to society-at-large, the people at a gathering have less variance between them. Less variance makes strangers more predictable to each other. If I can make more accurate guesses about your behaviour, I can be more generous with you even if I don’t yet know you personally, because... See more

Richard D. Bartlett • Inflating the Bubble of Trust

The expectation principle, by which values are weighted by their probability, is poor psychology.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

Jung wrote, "All projections provoke counter-projection when the object is unconscious of the quality projected upon it by the subject."[29] Jung argued that what is unconscious in the recipient will be projected back onto the projector, precipitating a form of mutual acting out.

Psychological projection

The content discusses the interplay between human actions, motivations, and rationality, emphasizing the significance of understanding underlying principles that drive decisions and behaviors in various contexts.

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Dans une certaine mesure, les valeurs de quelqu’un déterminent ce à quoi cette personne prêtera attention, et ce qui passera pour un fait. Dès l’Antiquité, on savait déjà que les règles et les morales variaient selon les sociétés, et il est intéressant de comparer les réactions de l’époque à celles d’aujourd’hui