There are many tiny factors that influence our lives. There are major factors, and those are what sociologists and psychologists concentrate their efforts on, but there are smaller factors that have so little to contribute in themselves that it becomes too much nitty-gritty and too little use. The professionals naturally skip it altogether since the contribution from these factors, to the actual impact is very little.

I've found that people are affected by everything that they are exposed to(in any case, their minds are!). No matter how big or small the factor, there will be an effect. Sometimes, the effects emerge later on in time, sometimes, they are overpowered by other effects or nullifying or reversing factors occurring later in an individuals life.

Similarly, people apply nudges and individual forces to society. Apart from population movements and graded power struggles, every individual applies their own bit of force to the equation. Sociologists ignore this. They prefer to think in terms of masses of people. Obviously, their predictions are largely correct and by avoiding the individual aspect, they are avoiding an explanation of the exact case at hand.

I live in a world where every little thing counts. So does everybody, only, they don't count every little thing. They prefer to see everything in black and white rather than as a world that's in shades of gray as well as full of gradient colors!

We have to allow for random factors. What are random factors? I talk about them so much, yet there are so few people who've actually asked me what they are. :o)

Well, when there are small factors that I cannot account for, I call them random. The reason for my inability to account for a factor is due to incomplete information. There's always something that has not been accounted for. The best reflection of this theory is Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle

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Often, the observer fails to take note of his/her own affect on the situation being observed. Most observers fail to notice the effect altogether, let alone drawing up a self-observance schedule for their observation. Observers tend to carelessly forget the 'I'm the center of the world' factor and that says a lot about their competency.

NEways, some factors remain un-calculated, and those are what I refer to as random factors. They can of course be noticed and duly inserted into future calculations, but often, it's too late by then and previous calculation (upon which future calculations are built upon) tend to turn out incorrect.

Yeah, my mistake, I would have unscreened it, but I was'nt online for a while....

thankyou - am on the road until tuesday - will catch up then.

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