- The statistical vocabulary for thinking about genetically influenced traits is that the genes are jointly significant in influencing traits, including behaviors.
- Adding detail can make a scenario SOUND MORE PLAUSIBLE, even though the event necessarily BECOMES LESS PROBABLE."
- Especially computing and data capacity continue to grow, the single most important constraint for system design is the user's ability to interact with the system.
- Read elsewhere this week and/or insinuated in reading this week: industries favor regulation when it can create competitive advantage, say, in the domestic market against cheaper global competitors, and when such regulation solves a collective action problem, e.g. the regulation finds the socially optimal outcome without risk of defectors (although the costs of government imposed regulation may be much greater).
Originally published 2007-09-28