Is cognitive dissonance a cost that matters much where political beliefs are
concerned? In other words, do voters or people in general care if their
political beliefs are logically inconsistent with each other or their
non-political moral beliefs?
To me it seems the answer is no. Looking through
Can the quality difference between a DVD and a VHS tape be measured? Between a 1975
Ford Sedan and a 2004 one? I know the good folks at the BLS try, and I admire the
efforts, but how can features like improved visual quality or the safety advantage of
antilock brakes be measured, other than th
I doubt anyone has hard data on this, but I'm wondering what people on this
list would guess is the average IQ of Ph.D. economists? Would it be much
different from the average IQ of Ph.D.s in general?
As a non-neutral party I can only say that IMO the "gun-to-the-head"
test is brilliant, on par with Nozick's dream machine.
Steve
On Mar 11, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Robert A. Book wrote:
As a neutral party who's not mentioned in the acknowledgements and has
never even met Bryan, I highly recommend this
On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Wei Dai wrote
The paper makes the point that what psychology views as mental
diseases in
many cases can be interpreted simply as extreme or unusual preferences,
and in those cases involuntary psychiatric treatment can not be
justified
as a benefit for the patient.
It se
I think that many people exhibit at least thin rationality while
arguably not being meta-rational. I'm not sure we can call them all
insane, and I wonder if a line can really be drawn, where it's clear
that someone really wishes that they had different wishes. Hating
one's preferences sounds a lot
I can try, and hope that people will correct me where I'm wrong.
Thin rationality: purposiveness; adopting means to achieve given ends.
Another aspect is having *some* level of sensitivity to costs and
benefits. A violation of thin rationality would be if you knew that
blinking didn't change chan
On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By contrast I don't find persuasive the attempt to equate someone who
cannot
distinguish voiced in his head from reality with the average person's
internal impulse to sneak into the movie theater without paying.
If they cannot distinguish the v
On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Eric Crampton wrote:
I don't know
though whether there can be a harm standard that allows Donald to
become
Deirdre but doesn't allow the anorexic to starve herself to death.
Why is that something to be forcibly stopped, but someone who smokes
three packs of cigarettes
On Mar 24, 2004, at 9:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. I didn't say that they can't ignore them, I said that they can't
distinguish them from reality. You can ignore Billy Joel's advice to
never argue with
a crazy man, but that doesn't mean that you can't distinguish between
the
real voice com
Err, Nash also decided to recognize "reality" on his own.
On Mar 24, 2004, at 9:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well we'd want to be hesitant about drawing conclusions from two data
points.
I'd like to see what some researchers and practioners in medicine and
psychotherapy have to say about that
ar 24, 2004 at 10:54:25AM -0500, Stephen Miller wrote:
I'm confused. How does one decide whether the younger version's
preferences are more "right" than the elder's?
When considering whether or not to return stolen goods to its original
owner, how does one decide whether the
There are approximately 17,000 golf courses in the U.S.
On Jul 30, 2004, at 5:50 AM, Hentrich, Steffen wrote:
Dear Armchairs,
today I had a discussion with a friend about urban planing and the
necessity of public provision of urban green space (parks etc.). Do
you know cases of private provision of
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Look at almost any condo complex, Disney World, or any
private development. Almost all provide some degree
of common greenspace mixed in. The large scale
private development best known for its green space is
Sea Ranch in California.
Ben
--- St
That's simply not true. Many, if not most, are open to the public. It
might be most courses by now... more and more private courses have
moved to either a fee system, open to the public, or a combination of
being open to the public, but selling memberships that are little more
than bulk discounts f
On Jul 30, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Jeffrey Rous wrote:
At the same time, none of my friends would ever want to live in one of
these enclaves.
Why not? So many other people do; it makes me wonder what it is they
dislike so much about these communities. Is it political?
area there is no free rider
problem (which is probably problem in thes thread)
Stephen Miller wrote:
That's simply not true. Many, if not most, are open to the public. It
might be most courses by now... more and more private courses have
moved to either a fee system, open to the public,
So it worked in the short run, and in the long run they were all dead!
On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Yes, but ag collectivization in the USSR DID raise additional
government
revenue, at least in the short-run. The people starved, production
fell, but Stalin got more grain to fe
of t* you prefer so as to make the case for
a tax cut or a tax hike.
jlw
Stephen Miller wrote:
So it worked in the short run, and in the long run they were all dead!
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