Serial Killers and Mathematics: Free Will? (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, January 26, 2012, 02:50 (4684 days ago) @ David Turell

Good Lord~!! If you bother to go to arXiv paper they create a similar pattern to the killer's activities. When I was a kid and polio was rampant in this country someone published a graph of coca cola sales growth and the rising incidence of polio. Perfect overlay, therefore coke caused polio. I kid you not.
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> Refractory periods recover in milli-seconds. Mathematicians get too many grants.:>))
> -lol! Remember that the next time you go to buy anything that doesn't have a computer embedded in it. You can barely buy a toaster anymore that doesn't contain digital logic! We're in your cars and your TVs too... so be careful who you pull funding on! (>))!!!!!-> I hope you are kidding, or trying to teach us math.-Note that the article has the word "assumed" all over it. The important thing is in discussing how "the power law" affects our lives and our brains. The link is tenuous, at best. My headline? Deliberately provocative! -You asked me a couple weeks back about how "hard" a science economics is. I said something about the only thing "hard" were the mathematics used to create the theories that get argued about all the time--The bell curve is one of the best predictors of human behavior in history. (If you have little problem with the bell curve, the power law follows far behind.)-The suggestion isn't that we're ruled by mathematics, but that we exhibit patterns that can be predictable. If you think what I just said was false, talk to any friend you might have that knows something about marketing, and ask him how fruitful social networks have been for the industry.

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