From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Populations (was Re: Mages and Space)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 11:11:20 -0300

Erik Jameson escreveu:
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>
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> See, there's all sort of ways to measure human and societal progress, but
> all of these methods are either badly flawed or are specialized means of
> measurement and can't be applied to other tests. Us humans are just a bit
> more squiggly than nice binary numbers.
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>
Agreed. No means of comparison are perfect, and that 1st/2nd/3rd
world stuff is
specially flawed, since it was not created by specialists it's just a
distortion
some guy made and got taught in every school in the world.

Ubiratan