Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manpower estimates depend on longitudinal models of mass behavior. Area knowledge depends on efficient storage indexing, and retrieval of diverse data. Accelerating the processes of teaching and learning depends on achieving better models of cognitive processes. Improvement is organizational communications is likely to follow from better models of the network of information flows. Intelligent personnel assessment requires progress in our methods of multi-dimensional psychometric scaling. Achievement of deterrence can be helped by better bargaining models and by documentation of cultural values through symbolic analysis...
There may be some interesting coaching strategy as a result of the strength of both teams in the freestyle, as both coaches will try to outguess the other in placing, their top swimmers in favorable matchups. Harvard head coach Don Gambril believes that the outcome may depend on where Navy puts Hand, and said that "what he swims could make a lot of difference...
...issue at stake does not depend on any of these questions. If individuals of any skin color tended to have disproportionately high I.Q.'s and success in a universally upward-mobile society. I believe Herrnstein would not care. The phenomena would disturb only those who accepted racism, a belief that skin colors really are important...
...main argument in the second part of the article is only peripherally related to I.Q. and can just as well be discussed independently. Its essence is a syllogism: "If differences in mental abilities are inherited, and if success requires those abilities, and if earnings and prestige depend on success, then social standing will be based to some extent on inherited differences among people." An alternative, more direct expression, taking into account Herrnstein's text, would be: Mental abilities are genetically determined in part. Social success and earnings depend on mental abilities, Therefore social success and earnings are genetically determined...
Indeed, if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices--that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are missing at in one case and in another and so on, that is, a real mathematical formula--then, most likely, man will cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Notes from Underground...