What happens when you stop paying attention to the vulture culture? When depth takes precedent to breadth, you just have to let go of things that take away your focus of attention. The level of sense and non-sense pertains to the running dialog of everything we see in every media.
Over-saturation of ubiquitous culture breeds counter-intuitive conclusions. Health is not what medicine is about. Learning is no longer the business of schools. Mergers have taken familiar names and changed the form of what is beneath the surface.
We used to imagine what if? We used to have old shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel that taught us a bit about science. Interesting myth there, called science. The Baroque Cycle is a work of historical fiction that describes the balance of religious and scientific worldview circa 1700 - a good trilogy to keep handy for when you have time on your hands.
Keeping busy is a means of keeping people off pace. You don't have time to measure and think about bias if you are constantly attempting to produce a result. The metric that we measure has to be one that indicates something that reflects value within the moment. It has to either be a simple count, or a ratio of small numbers. The simpler the better - such that people function in the metric without thinking about it.
Let's say that you have a class of 25 people including teachers and aides. They meet for six weeks every saturday morning to investigate forestry. You teach how to use a tape measure, a relaskop, a dichotomous key and some people get it a bit better than others. If you want a measure of how effective your teaching is, count the number of donuts eaten after the first break. This number will decrease the further you get involved, unless you have really captivated your audience. It is a measure of retention rate.
Think about it - most people eat one donut, a few eat two and some just don't do sugar. But nobody thinks, i better not have that donut so that i can fake the data set. You have to have measurements that accurately reflect the way that it is, in fair terms for what you are looking at. The measurement reflects value of a learning system.
The volume of nonsense has exceeded my capacity - i have a project that interests me enough to let the rest of everything else go for a bit. I will still pay attention to life here - and keep a journal of the games that i think about, but i will not pay any attention to media, social networks, other blog-sites, or group actions. Well human group action - point groups and irreducible representations will take on a key importance.
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