[MD] Choosing Chance

[John Carl]

Answer:  Efficacy.

Question:  What is your highest value when you have no morality?

And Mussolini got the trains running on time.

For a while.






> [Krimel]
> Skinner's ideas about why we act the way we do, rely heavily on his
> recognition of the importance of probability. He defined reinforcement as
> anything that increases the probability of a response. His insights into
> stimulus and response (input/output)and his emphasis on probability led him
> to work out a science of human behavior that dovetailed Darwin almost
> perfectly. He demonstrated for example that ritual is the produce of random
> reinforcement. It is easy to criticize Skinner at a distance but much
> harder
> when you look closely. His influence on management, human resources,
> advertising and marketing; in other words the technology of psychology; is
> enormous. Wanna know why? Because it works.
>
>
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