THE EFFECTS, DEFECTS AND BIASES

we have no ability to see the defects in our life that affect us, define us, bias us, stop us, tantalise us, erode us, delight us...

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Thursday, May 03, 2007

whichSideOfTheRoadEffect


the way from the department of economics to my home was a long and crowded one. people from every discipline has to walk through and turn left at the end of the road. the two side of the road is full of pedestrians. since there is a left turn at the end of the road, although the pavement on right-hand-side is much more comfortable to walk, i prefer to walk on the left. today i realized that no English people are using that side. it does not really matter which side of the road you are walking in terms of distance but there is only two determinants on the preference. first is the side in which you are going to turn to at the end of the road. for this you are crossing to the other side as you start the road. the other is to walk in a road which is more comfortable less muddy wider etc... for this you will keep on the right-hand-side through the road and cross the road at the end to turn left, which is the only chance to continue.

what i realise is that people from west always use right, and people from east use the left. this observation complies with my other theories among Westerns and easterners ideologies:

for westerns they are more likely to chose the road which is more comfortable, physically, reasonable choice isn't it?

for easterners they require something more than physical comfort. they prefer to walk through a muddy unbalanced and narrow road just because they feel mentally comfortable for having crossed to the side of the road which they will eventually have to cross.

so which side of the road are you in?
mental comfort?
physical comfort?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

theDiamondRingEffect




A dazzling burst of light that happens a few seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse. The effect is caused by the last bit of sunlight shining through valleys on the edge of the Moon.

Friday, April 20, 2007

theButterflyEffect


The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

theDopplerEffect


theDopplerEffect has originally been used in astronomy to measure how fast stars are coming towards us or going away from us. Nowadays it is used to measure the velocity of any object. what drivers most afraid from as a velocity measuring device was first invented using this idea. the working principle of that device is such that the rays emitted with a constant frequency are reflected back by the object. because of theDoppleEffect the frequency of reflection is different than the emission. the ratio between upcoming frequency and the emitted frequency gives us the linear velocity of that object.

how fast you are losing or gaining someone, as a friend or lover, depends on the ration between how much you give to them and how much you get from them

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

theMithsEffect



when an anonymous apple found on Olympus, the most powerful of all the goddesses Hera Athena and Aphrodite claimed ownership for there was writing "to the most beautiful" on it. three of them had long arguments on who was the most beautiful and who was going to get the it. not solving by themselves they decided to ask Zeus, the god of all gods and goddesses, father of Athena, brother of Aphrodite, husband of Hera, to decide. he didn't like the idea to be the referee for choosing the most beautiful, since he knows whoever he chooses, he will going to have problems with the other two. so, clever enough, he assigned the prince of Troy, Paris, to be the referee.

the goddesses was so keen on being the one so they bribed Paris, with their special divine powers. Hera offered political power for future, Athena offered great victories for the armies of troy, Aphrodite offered a great passionate love.

Paris at that times was living alone in the wild and away from civilization, alone and looking for the woman of his life... there he has chosen Aphrodite to be the most beautiful

so Aphrodite gave him what she had offered, the love of Helen,
but Athena and Hera was so angry

all of those was the start of Ilias, where the great nation Troy was going to be defeated and erased...

Monday, March 26, 2007

theTradibilityEffect


i have never understood the underlying factors why most people use unnecessary words like

money, finance, interest rate, bank, recruitment, stock market, travel, ticket, booking, hotel, holiday, Madagascar, present, flower, shipment, music, university, car, sports, sale, cheap, free, corporation, international, real estate...

quite frequently in their blogs:))

theOppositionsEffect


untill now i couldn't understand why in many disciplines of science there are specific terms and conventions. recently i have this problem in econometrics. for a typical person the expression "can accept" will exactly be having the same meaning with "cannot reject". at least for me it is. i don't know why in my book keeps sayying:

"if you cannot reject the null hypothesis of parameter instability..."
instead of
"if you can accept parameter null"

but now i see.
just to find evidence to reject an hypothesis is not a proof for accepting an alternative. sometimes you have evidence to reject everything

not like doing someting is not an evidence to like not to do it:)))

Sunday, March 25, 2007

theBloggerEffect


when you have a weblog, every minute in your everyday life you try to find some new post titles and topics and live accordingly, therefore 7 days from my life i have been living with this thoughts in one part of my brain repeating in a constant loop:

can i create a post out of any particular event that have just happened

this post is one of them obviously:)))

Friday, March 23, 2007

theExternalitiesEffect


externality effects occur when consumption of a good reduces the utility of the other people. a good example to that could be smoking. the smoke in the close environment decreases the utility of a non-smoker, on the other hand, prohibition of smoking will reduce the utility of smoker.

economic studies claims ways for justice:
tax on tobacco products are normally added to government revenues.
what i suggest is non-smokers get a share from the tobacco tax revenue.

once a year, the non-smoker can go to revenues office and claim compensation with a medical report proving that she is a non-smoker. revenues office pays that claimer, as a compensation, a share from the revenue gathered from smokers.

the share that non-smokers win compensates the decrease in their utility that has arose because of the smoke on the environment that smokers produced...

as a non-smoker pollution makes me sad,
i hereby ask all the governments,
could you please pay me for i am unwillingly polluted by others???
this is the only just way of dealing with externality, economists argue

theQuantumEffect



electrons and protons are the core working median of the quantum physics. as a critique to the traditional newton physics quantum claims complete different universe for the particles in size of electrons.

one of the theories of quantum is that particles are under mass gravitational pulling forces as newton suggested but as the distance between the center of mass of the objects get smaller and smaller the pulling force turns into pushing force. this is why electrons never touches and will never ever touch protons while making their orbital movement around the nucleus.

if we could have make a small change in the traditional saying we conclude:

proton notrona kavusmaz insan insana kavusur:))))

Thursday, March 22, 2007

theCharlesLMeeEffect



I would like to be punished.

Whatever it is said
I may have contributed to
whether true or not
whatever it is I may have condoned
or consented to with my silence
or neglected to challenge as an artist or a human being
a citizen, a worker in the society,
OK

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

lePetitPrinceEffect



"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

theEquinoxEffect



March 21

when sun comes directly to the equator
when the night and daytime is 12 hours each
when starts the spring in north semisphere
when darkness leaves the north pole first time for the last six months

the world`s changing today...
Oh, Brother Where Art Thou??

theSixRaspberryEffect

Monday, March 19, 2007

theBlurEffect


it is known that when exceed some critical level of acceleration the visual perseption of a subject will be distorted because of the mechanics involved inside of the eye. this is called blurEffect. you may easily feel it in a sport car. making rapid body movements you will have a blurred vision of environment. this may be a useful clue as people in their daily lives tend to avoid seeing things clearly. maybe because clear vision of the truth will hurt them, or will stop them doing what they intensively want. so what i suggest to those who want to avoid seeing things clearly is to move fast and rapidly so with a blurred vision of the truth they may carry on living with their cat:))))

Sunday, March 18, 2007

theSunEffect




i used to hitchhike to go to my lectures when i was a student. there was one good and safe place that drivers could see me early enough to make a decision and at the same time it was a safe place for them to stop. when hitchhiking, a good facial pose increases the possibility to be accepted by a car: you should smile a little bit, open your eyes and so on. however in the morning lectures i have this problem with the posing. the sun came directly to my eyes forcing me to grimace, decreasing the chances which i had to deal with. so i moved a little backwards for the signboard on the top comes in between providing a shadow for my eyes...

however as time goes by, day by day, as spring begins, daytime expands, compared to the same exact time yesterday the sun positions higher in the sky, gradually exceeding the signboard boarders, coming directly to my eye again but this time brighter and brighter. i could not stop the grimace.

what i eventually recognise was although i put high efforts, think a lot, find solutions; although i worked hard just to find a way to block the sunlight for i could achieve my gole in hitchhike, in the end when i lost hope and surrendered by the power of sun, i forgot about the hitchhike and courses and everything. the sun was so beautiful that i realise that all that time i was a fool trying to avoid...

the physical equations state the same: the required initial speed of any object on earth's surface to escape from sun's gravitational field is 1.7 million m/s (340000 mi/h). this simple expression clearly states that at least for an hundred years more we are prisoners of the sun and will not be able to escape from it.

so lets all love the sun shall we? :))))

aDayInLifeEffect


I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on

Saturday, March 17, 2007

theModernismEffect



above you can see a photo taken from an angle that sees the topside of the bridge vertically. what is interesting here is the blue line across the bridge. government finds it necessary to put a blue line on that civil structure. that line has no help to the pedestrian and no effect at all to anything. so why is it there?

this i call modernismEffect: creating an image on the citizens that the rules, wherever you are, follows you. the government is there, you are never left alone. it is some kind of a label in your jeans, or the price sticker in your shoes. without that line it would be as like a jar on the shelf without any sticker. would you buy that from a super-market, a jar of peanut butter that have no labeling at all:))))

theFamiliarityEffect


subjects tend to respond rapidly for the stimuli that they are familiar with. this idea constitutes the core of marketing industry. wishing the customers will have the tendency to buy the goods that they are familiar with corporations spent huge ratios of their revenues just to make sure that the appearance of their product has been showed millions and billions of times to potential buyers.

as a consumer, before making a purchase, please make sure that big portion of the price you pay for a product does not go just to fool you:)))

theIncomeAndSubstitutionEffect


imagine you are living in a two-good-economy consuming only love and hate when your income, which is time in our case, is constant. the prices of emotions may be defined as how much time you have to give up for the enjoyment. if somehow the price of love falls down you are likely to consume more love and less hate than before, the substitutionEffect. Putting the incomeEffect in to scenario you will see that you will consume both of the goods more. simple and easy...

so don`t forget the power of incomeEffect when you fall in cheap love :))))

thePlaceboEffect


when the chemistry firm produces a new medicine before they drive the drug to the market they use several test one of which is called placebo test. a group of patients suffering from the same illness are being tested. half of them are given the real medicine while the other half of them, they are called the placebo group are given fake medicine, which is nothing but sugar. all of them thinks that they are given real medicine. if there is sufficient difference between the placebo group and the rest in terms of the cure of the illness the drug is supplied to the market. else if they are all similarly cured the drug is said to have a placeboEffect, and not derived to the market.


this simple procedure sufficiently tells us that sometimes it is our beliefs that cure us rather than the chemistry we are filled with :))))

thePenguenEffect


how penguens deal with the cold storms in the poles that could be down to -30s C degree is also an important phenomenon in one of the third year courses in mechanical engineering: heat transfer. they stand together so that boundary layers are formed away from the group providing a safe temperature for them to survive. it seems simple but it is life saving.

however apart from the ice cold men have their own reasoning to stick together aren`t they:))

theBirminghamEffect


how this city have affected my future life experience is nothing but hope...
hope to get out of here:))