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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
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
Psychological projection
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