Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 06:26:05 -0300
From: Ken McE <kenmce@catskill.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Study Proposal
Timequake1 <Timequake1@aol.com> Wrote:
> I am interested in doing a study that may fall into the field of memetics. I
> am interested in the qualities of ideas that make them successful. I plan to
> collect and catalogue a great numbers of ideas or memes that have affected
> human history and use quantitative measurements of various objective aspects
> of each idea, measuring each idea's qualities in several categories. I plan
> to correlate this information with the quantitative success of each idea in
> order to find what qualities make ideas successful.
>
I don't know what's been done along these lines before, but I would
encourage you to keep us posted on your work. It sounds like an
excellent idea. Good luck.
Ken McE
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