So.. not linux? Or their use of linux is still undetermined?

Wouldn't mind this feature at all, so when more people/posters get added to the starter pack, they get added to my list too. Pppleeeaaasssee.

I went on a dumb mental health walk today (this is living in my head rent free, so thanks?), and it was... very olfactorily culinarious? Took me a minute to place it but, did someone just spill a large plate of appetizer olives? No, I was in some CA laurel trees en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbellu...

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At least it's a specific hypothesis that we can think more about and propose some tests that would support or contradict. And that concludes today's installment of Odd and Unusual applications of the Central Limit Theorem: Personal Integrity edition /13-end

Any individual's past experiences with norms and the unexpected reactions they've witnessed or experienced with breaking them will influence whatever internal integrity set point they started with. I could see that adding up to a Normal, or similar, distribution of integrity in the population /12

Anyway, there may be other social pressures out there but these two came to mind and they seem to me to be related or maybe even dual with personal integrity /11

Or maybe they completely fly off the handle. How irate do you think someone might get if their place in line is cut right before they get to order lunch? Probably depends on how hungry they are, a generally invisible quantity /10

The other tendency is 2) the unpredictable response that any random, unknown, other human will have when those norms are transgressed. They could silently suffer internal anguish, they could cast dirty looks or even some aspersions /9

Things like driving on the right side of the road. Or the left side if that's where you live. Never both, or if the road is narrow and disused, then people usually know that and drive accordingly. There are lots of examples of this. I think these are the things we see, but there is a deeper layer /8

But I did notice, going from memory here, that there are a couple of competing tendencies or habits that come to mind. 1) people have established cultural norms or rules that they generally follow without thinking much about it /7

Now I'll say at this point that I am not especially convinced that the distribution of integrity values in the population of humans has to be Normal / bell curve or anything like that /6

Note that this is not necessarily a bona fide rigorous technique of reasoning, but do feel free to point out where it can be improved or made more funny or whatev. I appreciate rigor _and_ humor /5

What surprised me was my friend's quick reflexive reaction of "Because Gaussian." And that's how we (you) ended up in today's episode of odd and unusual applications of the central limit theorem /4

the way that I put that feeling back to my friend was "it's up to us to figure out why/how we are a successful species despite the range of integrity different people have" or something like that, for some definition of success. I could check my texts but that's not the point /3

but a minute later I had that funny feeling when something isn't adding up; different people have different standards of integrity, this is an observational fact even if it would be difficult to precisely quantify. What is the unit of integrity? I'm sure some social scientist knows. Anyway... /2