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Comment Re:Common ground (Score 1) 769

"attribute this phenomenon first and foremost to what is described as engineering thinking or an engineering mindset. The concept includes an assumption, which has been raised in psychological research, that engineering as a field of study and a profession tends to attract people who seek certainty, and their approach to the world is largely mechanistic. So they are characterized by a greater intolerance of uncertainty - a quality that is evident among extremists, both religious and secular.

Those with engineering mindsets are also characterized by an approach that requires society to operate "like clockwork" and abhors democratic politics, which requires compromises. It's clear that this is a cumulative tendency and not a stereotypical generalization."

From http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/why-are-so-many-would-be-terrorists-engineers-1.263214 earlier this year.

Comment Re:Too many hands in the Cookie Jar (Score 1) 2044

On the contrary. Not only are both efficiency and quality of government-run health care disputed, but so are the methodologies used to compare them between countries. The media keep repeating, that US health care is somehow worse and point to life expectancy statistics among others but health care is only one of the determinants of life expectancy - rate of homicides, deaths from traffic accidents and broader lifestyle variations in the US are significant too, yet they have little relevance to efficiency or quality of health care. When these factors are accounted for, US health care quality suddenly jumps to the top.

See the WSJ here http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-the-us-lead-in-life-expectancy-223/tab/article/
and The City Journal here http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

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When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

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