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Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by WhatThallShallWilt
I addressed this in another thread, but in short you don't need to predict individual behavior. You will go crazy trying to do it. If you want to control individual behavior, it takes individual attention that is kind of in a vacuum from the desire to control another person. To control an individual you have to leverage things that will decrease your control in another person.
But to predict mass movements? That is easy. I have done it in a call center. When I tried to predict individual agent absenteeism I wasn't even close. But if i applied the same model to a grouping of around 100 agents, I could predict macro level movements, however, to a high level of accuracy. With 90% to 95% certainty I could predict how many agents would be absent from their desk (absent from work, or just unscheduled break) during any minute of the day.
The input was a dataset of the agent behaviors of absenteeism on individual levels. And while those behaviors don't wash out on individuals, when viewed from 30,000 feet the patterns will hold true. If one isn't absent, another will be (and so on).
Forecasting is not hard. Not at all.
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
I've been waiting to add this thought to the conversation. Once you have removed moral ethics from a population and replaced it with moral relativism, politically correct dogma, and cheap, easy entertainment with XXX sex and violence - people won't stand for anything, and are easily controlled and lazy.
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by Hefficide
I love that word - desensitized.
What is our gov't desensitizing the US population to presently? Besides promiscuous sex and violence.
Some of the things that you discuss, such as pornography, IMO are merely distractions and are considered, by those in control, to be in the same category as soap operas, sports, and video games. Just things to keep the masses sated, focused, and preoccupied.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by WhatThallShallWilt
There will be no ripple affect. Not without society already being under severe stress.
One person, or a hundred individuals, they can stand up and say "No". They will simply be shouted down, then shuffled off. Before long, no one even remembers they were there.
History is full of people who stood up and said "no". But history books have nothing to say about them. What you describe is what we would hope for humanity. But tens of thousands of years have shown that it just won't happen. And if Spartacus stands to announce his name, be sure that he will stand alone.
We can't even count on our fellow humans to stop rapes that are happening on a consistent basis. How many cases are there on the books where witnesses did nothing to stop an attack?