Statistician's dream

HOW MUCH THE VIEW OF ONE PERSON AFFECTS THE VIEWS OF OTHERS
the Finnish speaking Finns always seek personal confirmation of everything - either that of their own or of their social contacts'.
The social environment's views are seen by the Finnish speaking ones like a landscape or a statistic about different opinions with estimates of the type understanding, i.e. what factors they pay attention to, of persons in question, and the whole landscape is used as a helping aid in determining the trustworthiness of each view and so one's own view too.
A STATISTICIAN'S DREAM?: statistician's results from just about anyone

About the landscape of different views:
First picture in your mind the general views and skills of a single individual: generally likes handiwork but is not good at milking cows and doesn't care so much about cows but cares about children especially if they are boys but if girls then such and such, in politics has the general views that ... and they stem from those sources because, so in this question one has such and such view because ...
This may seem complicated but it isn't once you have a good picture of each single individual since you can use exactly the same picture in all areas of life since the picture is so wide that it includes well all areas of life.
Repeat this individual by individual until you have the views of all grouped by similarity in grounds and by similarity of views. So you can pick the most likely state of affairs. This should take some seconds or minutes from an ordinary school child. Starts with views about sports, professions, favourite music, politics etc.

So the view isn't: such and such is considered stupid, but: such and such is considered somewhat stupid by some who are like ... because they think that ... and stupid by those who ... because they think that ... and very stupid by someone who ... and nice by some who pick their views on social grounds only. Moral connects to this question in the way that ...

So there are at least two areas of life:
* rationality and moral: take care of important matters (large scale, justice, human values,...), truth, live a full life, live and let others live
* social things and customs: fashion, the views of others in a deciding role, role play, idols
Power play connects to the society at large so reaction to it is a moral matter. It can also affect lives at the small scale so enormously that it is a moral matter because of that.


HOW TO THINK ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE
Humans are thinking beings, so it makes sense to check which kind of thinking ability and picture of the world each individual/subgroup has. Also other strengths matter: divide them according to each area of life: social, practical, customary, emotional,... Add the effects of humans, with their effects via others, on each area of life, with their side effects, on each other area of life, and with the effects of other areas of life taken into account. There aren't so very much of these complications, so this is the easiest way to count the effects. Generally the different areas of life are quite separate, the other areas of life giving just an functional environment for each area of life or giving emphasis to some things on another area of life.


Start with a landscape of the common sense picture of the world. Mark in it with different "colours" the different areas of life. In fact if you do this correctly, using the everyday experience of life as a starting point, the different kinds of things feel different, so they are coloured already with different "colours". Notice what is the ground for each thing on each area of life: are there thoughts affecting, or emotions, or social things, or traditions etc. Observe the dynamics of these situations: how the effect comes about and what it is like, what are things like independently of that particular effect i.e. what is the dynamics otherwise, on the whole like. Now just observe the thus formed more detailed and more analytically observed landscape: you can see the regularities in it and understand the behaviour of humans via it.
Read my texts about the natural motivational ground affecting the behaviour of humans and the text about governing a very large group (like bureaucrats for example do).

How to think about the social security system: At times of emergencies people need to be helped. That is the job of others and of the state. Such helps to avoid crimes, which take the weaker ones as victims against justice.
People work. They get money from it. A part of that money is a safety precaution against bad times, via the social security system of the state.


THINKING ABOUT HUMANS: Jack and I and all the rest of the people

SIMPLIFYING A COMPLEX WHOLE LIKE SEVERAL VIEWS OR GOVERNING A VERY LARGE GROUP

The practical world is largely the same to all even though all do not live at the same parts of it and their lives may mostly handle different areas of life. When one wishes something, classify it according to the basic goals that humans and other living beings naturally have in their lives, mark also in your practical rough picture of the world which in fact are the practical arrangement that the individual can use and is using to reach these goals. Like this you can add many persons to your picture of the world, with the possibility of meeting their needs also some other way than what they have suggested. (So there is all that is needed marked up in this simple view.) And you have at the same time gained a natural understanding of their motivation in life and in the things in question, and maybe an understanding of how different situations of life influence what life feels like, how one succeeds in each kind of thing etc.
This is the point of view of a bureaucrat, I suppose. It is an effective way of thinking about a large group of påeole without making any thought errors.
Read My picture of humans about the development of character as a consequence of life's circumstances.

FEELINGS IN ONE'S PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Toward a more natural way of thinking
A theoretical exercise to increase emotional understanding in one's picture of the world, and because of that, also increase moral and responsible behaviour:

Think EMPHATIZINGLY what are the basic experiences and instincts, same to every human being or to every living being. Basic experiences, the basic building blocks are the same regardless of the culture, but the whole may differ.
(I think that the Buddhist metta exercise to increase compassion should be at least partly replaced by this kind of thinking exercise. In the Finnish speaking Finnish culture understanding, freedom of the moral ones and peacefulness give rise to compassion.)

GETTING FEEDBACK FROM OTHERS

We Finns are good at holistic objective thinking also in social relationships. This is helped by some easy basic principles which are reflected in the Finnish sayings:
"The forest answers you the way that you shout to it." The echo. People treat you the way that you treat them.
That way you yourself create your own living conditions.
If you treat others badly they get angry and treat you badly in return, and if you are kind to others, they feel warm and treat you kindly in return. This is seen in the Finnish culture to be the nature of the world, inevitable in the healthy natural social life - both inevitable and good since it gives feedback about what one does so that good things get strenghtened and bad deeds punished. So see the consequences of your actions and of the actions of others and take them into account in your behaviour.
Compare this to the society agreement and to justice. Justice makes things symmetrical, so it is easy to generalise.

JUSTICE, HONESTY AND SINCERETY

Feedback systems & the value of right kind of feedback. Positive feedback guides the part in question to the direction that gives such positive feedback. Negative feedback guides the part away from the direction which causes such negative feedback. Lack of feedback, leaves these guiding effects away. So it causes a lack of correlation between the results of one's past actions and one's present and future actions. But the lack of it in that isn't as bad and harmful as when the feedback is mistaken, of a wrong kind, like with unjustice and lies and mistaken perceptionsd.

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