Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These examples, and numerous others, point to a conceptual fallacy, not just a problem of implementation. Skinnerian terms may have relevance in an animal laboratory, but when used to describe or comprehend human situations they are not only incorrect, but actually distort the meaning of those situations. For example, the community decided against children after problems involving disputes over ultimate responsibility for existing children, and lack of community interest in devoting its time to child care. From this experience Kinkade concludes that a "controlled environment" is necessary to "arrange" the proper type of child. But this solution, which deals with...
...emanate from Menlo Park last December. Two men, it seems, had been demonstrating strange and wondrous powers for SRI researchers. One of the men, a 25-year-old Israeli named Uri Geller, was apparently able to communicate by telepathy, detect and describe objects completely hidden from view, and distort metal implements with his psychic energy. The word among staff members was that SRI President Charles Anderson, who at first had opposed the project, changed his mind after witnessing demonstrations by Geller...
Following the essays on specific myths is a longer piece called "Myth Today," which sets forth a theory of mythology far more complex and profound than the ideas Barthes applies to specific cases. Here, he describes myth as a form of speech whose particular function is to distort psychological intentions into a form which makes them seem natural and universal. The target of Barthes's investigation is the bourgeois, who tries to escape from history into myths such as "the nation" or "the human condition"--mythical universals which actually correspond only to changing, human creations...
...single principle of truth. It seeks even treatment not for select constituencies, but for all people everywhere. Most important, today's Crimson shares with the first Magenta a responsibility to print each side of every issue, and to show no quarter to those persons who seek to distort and manipulate its columns...
Factors other than earnings can also affect the price of a stock and wildly distort P/E ratios. Aerovox Corp. earned a grand total of less than 30¢ per share in the last four quarters, but its stock still sells at about 13½ per share, giving it a P/E of 50, because it is in a growth industry?electric and electronic components. Though Superior Oil earned only $1.06 a share in 1971, it sells at a ratio of 251, largely because the market places a high value on its enormous reserves of oil in the U.S. and Canada. Only investigation...