Hang on David! What people SAY they think will turn them on, no? Every interview is a dynamic interaction between two human beings, right? It's always quite possible that what people say to anthropologists has nothing to do with what they say, "think", or do at any other time, right??
Do you watch "House". Everybody's a liar. Nick > [Original Message] > From: Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Friday Morning Applied ComplexityCoffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Date: 8/6/2007 2:27:15 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Rationalilzations or Causes? > > > True, but the rationalizations are the only things that are important. > > As a cultural anthropologist I am interested in building models of > culture - complex non-deterministic models and rationalizations are the > only data points that are useful. Rationalizations provide some measure > of insight into why people think they do what they do and these insights > can be compared and contrasted with other aspects of culture > (paraphrasing here, the complex whole that includes world view > (metaphysics), values, practices, customs, and technology) to build > models that are mildly explanatory and even mildly and statistically > predictive. > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
