Tipping Point

[Jack Edwards]

Interesting article - a study shows that once an opinion is absolutely accepted by 10% of the population, it quickly rises to a majority opinion. This could help explain why the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia happened so quickly. It has relevance to opinions changing rapidly on things such as the stock market, where it could cause a rapid drop once 10% decides it's time to get out.

http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenter ... age%281%29

Regards

Jack

[gerald]

A tipping point?

Posted by Stephen Smith --
"broad three toed foot prints" on Mars - speculation, May 1976 by Richard H Smith, ( 1932 - 2002 )
Just posted on the Thunderbolts site ( a scientific oriented site ) http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/08 ... s-on-mars/

Is this for real? if so, why has this been kept quiet?

[vincecate]

Interesting article - a study shows that once an opinion is absolutely accepted by 10% of the population, it quickly rises to a majority opinion.
http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenter ... age%281%29

When 10% of the population thinks that the US paper money is going to become worthless, watch out. I wonder what percentage we are at now.

[gerald]

ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013—The Tipping Point
Different viewpoints and ideas

Here is a YouTube playlist, including interviews with several key speakers at the January conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013—The Tipping Point. The list includes interviews with Wal Thornhill and David Talbott, A P David, Gerald Pollack, Dean Radin, and Mae-Wan Ho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iQWxS5 ... 8_q2lePi0O

Some topics - The merging of myth and science, -- do we live on a plane meant for life? *-- the forth state of water -- { light affects the structure of water in living cells, [this lack of light could be a contributing cause of "cabin fever" " Experts agree that there is a link between decreasing sunlight during the fall and winter months and a chemical imbalance in the brain. In 1980 researchers at the National Institutes of Mental Health demonstrated that high-intensity light affects the natural release of metatonin by the pineal gland in the brain. This determined that human physiology is influenced by light." .http://www.alaska.net/~mhaa/factsheets/ ... rint2.html ] } --- transformation of conscious and psychic abilities, --- a problem with science in higher education, etc.

* for more on this perspective see post Feb. 3 "Other Ideas" under --- Science, Technology and the Singularity

[vincecate]

Interesting article - a study shows that once an opinion is absolutely accepted by 10% of the population, it quickly rises to a majority opinion.
http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenter ... age%281%29

When 10% of the population thinks that the US paper money is going to become worthless, watch out. I wonder what percentage we are at now.

I have run a poll for this week on my blog. With only 26 voters it seems about 3/4ths think we will have hyperinflation in the next 5 years. Now my blog is called "How Fiat Dies" and is about hyperinflation, so this is not a random sampling. Even so, I was surprised how high it is. It would be interesting if someone else could run a poll on some non-hyperinflation blog so as to get closer to a random sample.

[akram666]

I have run a poll for this week on my blog. With only 26 voters it seems about 3/4ths think we will have hyperinflation in the next 5 years. Now my blog is called "How Fiat Dies" and is about hyperinflation, so this is not a random sampling. Even so, I was surprised how high it is. It would be interesting if someone else could run a poll on some non-hyperinflation blog so as to get closer to a random sample.