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Re: On Uncertainty Avoidance     

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Author: bigfletch8
Date: May 9, 2008 01:54

... cultural differences, and among his investigated traits is something he calls "uncertainty avoidance." This is an index of a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity, and its willingness to ...ll find that when it comes to uncertainty avoidance, Americans score 15 percent lower ... Germans are even more inclined to avoid uncertainty then residents of The Netherlands....
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: May 9, 2008 01:52

... any aliens they make contact with would be more advance and more intelligent than they. Thus it is more a case of "Human Avoidance" rather than "Uncertainty Avoidance". There is nothing any self respecting alien could learn from humans - but indeed much humans could learn from them. But why would any ...
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Author: Immortalist
Date: May 8, 2008 23:00

... a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity, and its willingness ... a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity; it ultimately refers ... unknown, surprising, different from usual. Uncertainty avoiding cultures try to minimize ...nervous energy. The opposite type, uncertainty accepting cultures, are more tolerant...cope with anxiety by minimizing uncertainty. Cultures that scored high in...
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Author: Ed
Date: May 8, 2008 20:17

...global cultural differences, and among his investigated traits is something he calls "uncertainty avoidance." This is an index of a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity, and its willingness to ... find that when it comes to uncertainty avoidance, Americans score 15 percent lower ... Germans are even more inclined to avoid uncertainty then residents of The Netherlands....
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Author: Xan
Date: May 8, 2008 18:03

...a case of "Human Avoidance" rather than "Uncertainty Avoidance". There is nothing any...investigated traits is something he calls "uncertainty avoidance." This is an index ... a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity, and its willingness ... that when it comes to uncertainty avoidance, Americans score 15 percent ... are even more inclined to avoid uncertainty then residents of The ...
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Author: Sir Frederick
Date: May 8, 2008 17:37

... global cultural differences, and among his investigated traits is something he calls "uncertainty avoidance." This is an index of a society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity, and its willingness to ...ll find that when it comes to uncertainty avoidance, Americans score 15 percent lower ... Germans are even more inclined to avoid uncertainty then residents of The Netherlands. ...
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Author: ZerkonX
Date: May 9, 2008 05:17

On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:37:20 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote: Why Don't They Do SETI? Imagine what would happen, what would really happen if anything came of this program. Would anyone but a very few even know about it?
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Re: Uncertainty Principle     

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Author: brian fletcher
Date: Jul 28, 2007 23:37

.... I think if one wants happiness in this life, it is best to avoid philosophical or mathematical transcendentalism. There was a master who said he would only depart knowledge ... "events"- the cornerstone of R physics is a better belief than Heisenberg's transcendental uncertainty. In modern times the acceleration of technological breakthroughs will challenge old stories that ...
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Author: jillarontown
Date: Jul 28, 2007 21:22

... physics. I think if one wants happiness in this life, it is best to avoid philosophical or mathematical transcendentalism. There was a master who said he would only depart knowledge ..."events"- the cornerstone of R physics is a better belief than Heisenberg's transcendental uncertainty. In modern times the acceleration of technological breakthroughs will challenge old stories that are ...
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Re: The possible purpose of uncertainty     

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Author: Immortalist
Date: Mar 29, 2007 11:13

... philosophers have examined the possible purpose of the fact of uncertainty ("ignorance of meaning"... would that be the correct term)?.... Dogmatists: those who claim we have knowledge. I will avoid the paradoxical sort of self-refutation which would plague skeptics...-sensory perception). As noted above, we clearly wish to avoid any air of paradoxical self-refutation. "The sceptic is...
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