Quite, I'm passing it along to a number of colleagues and a couple of other lists.
Now if I can just figure a way to quantify the concept of perceived sense of control and the points leading to denialism I think we'd have a very good instrument that could predict how a person would or would not engage in this sort of absolutist thinking. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > That was a great article, and puts into words everything I've always > suspected about people who seem to deny, when denial makes no sense. > > The quote from the Texas BOE was classic...."someone has to stand up to the > experts". > -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons -- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
