Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA05075 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Jun 2000 20:01:14 +0100 Message-ID: <002601bfcfed$20a2c440$3807bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0006021447550.29909-100000@frost.umd.edu> <3937C5C3.F6EAA23B@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Jabbering ! Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:15:17 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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From: Chuck <cpalson@mediaone.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Jabbering !
>
> Lawrence - I know what you are talking about -- I have been interviewing
for a
> few decades in my own and other cultures. I think you at least
underestimate
> self-deception, which, by the way, includes the interviewer's own
self-deception.
>
> But then, perhaps I don't know what you mean by "intervention" - an
example might
> help.
> A counter example: I was interested in the changes in oral sex usage in
the last
> 15 years. Everyone I asked in their 20s said that they practiced a lot
more oral
> sex because it is a form of AIDS protection. I pointed out to them,
however, that
> condoms would have done just fine - which they agreed to - and realized
that they
> were wrong in their reasoning.
<< Wrong reasoning !? Why !?
I think you at least underestimate how simple the mind can work, how
simple ideas can be !!
It is just simple reasoning, you get Aids from sexual intercourse, no inter-
course no Aids !!
Oral sex is no intercourse, so !?
(By the way, getting no Aids with oral sex, I wonder, blood !?)
A counter example,
A people 's saying, from kissing a boy you can get pregnant.
So no kissing, no baby !
So, what does the daughter say when she is exepting a child !?
" But, mom, we never kissed !! "
That is simple, but wrong reasoning !?
I think you overestimate the IQ of people !!
regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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