The substack that I write under the title of "Building A Model Of A Physical System Without Making Any Mistakes" identifies mistakes in public policy making that result from mistaking "complex" physical physical systems for "non-complex" physical systems in the construction of the putatively "predictive" models of these systems that underlie these policies, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole system and not of the separate parts of this system. In the book entitled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism,' The professor of clinical psychology and statistician Mattias Desmet reports the findings of his statistical study of this phenomenon. This ist hat for a large group of the citizens of a country to make this mistake is a precursor to totalitarian rule over this country. In the politics of the United States, this mistake is made by progressives and not by conservatives yet this remarkable fact seems to be unknown to a group of political scientists that includes you. Your response?
Dear Prof. McFaul:
The substack that I write under the title of "Building A Model Of A Physical System Without Making Any Mistakes" identifies mistakes in public policy making that result from mistaking "complex" physical physical systems for "non-complex" physical systems in the construction of the putatively "predictive" models of these systems that underlie these policies, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole system and not of the separate parts of this system. In the book entitled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism,' The professor of clinical psychology and statistician Mattias Desmet reports the findings of his statistical study of this phenomenon. This ist hat for a large group of the citizens of a country to make this mistake is a precursor to totalitarian rule over this country. In the politics of the United States, this mistake is made by progressives and not by conservatives yet this remarkable fact seems to be unknown to a group of political scientists that includes you. Your response?
Cordially,
Terry Oldberg
Engineer/Scientist/Public Policy Researcher
Los Altos Hills, California
650-518-6636 (mobile)
terry_Oldberg@yahoo.com (email)