"What's a double blind test?:, you may ask. A double blind test is, by far, the primary statistical tool for testing the efficacity of medical drugs or of medical procedures.

For example, a random sample of patients is selected. Half of them are treated by an experimental drug (or procedure); half, by a "placebo" (say, a sugar pill or trivial procedure). One part of the "double blind" is that the testees do not know how the "administrators" are treating them. The other part of the "double blind" is that a "judging" group of physicians examine the testees and judge their condition without knowing how they are treated. If a "statistically significant" number of them seem to improve, the drug (or procedure) may be considered eficacious; otherwise, not.

In constructing this test, I assume the role of the "administrators" in randoml distributing (below) descriptions of events in which a person was either intentionally slurred or bullied (homologous to drug or procedure), on the one hand, or the act was unintentional (homologous to "placebo"). You constitute part of the "judges". After reading the description -- and before clicking the eyelet -- decide if "intentional" or "unintentional". Then click to learn how I formulated it.

"How randomized?" In a randomized run of 50 numbers, if the nth number is odd, I select a case that is one way (intentional or nonintensional); if, even, the contrary of the former. No! I'm not telling you which is which. Also, it was a stratified sampling (another procedure currently in use in double blind testing). To those in the "know", this means the sampling was arranged so that the distribution was "half intentinal", "half nonintentional".

My point? That this daily situation of talking and making judgments and such is homologous to what mathematicians call a "function": MANY INPUTS FOR A SINGLE OUTPUT (MANY-ONE FUNCTION); or ONE INPUT FOR A SINGLE OUTPUT (ONE-ONE FUNCTION). I say it's also homologous to a vast field, "iatrogenic medicine", from the Greek "iatro-" for "self". Iatrogenic medicine deals with medical problems caused by medical practice. Say, you're hospitalized for an appendetomy and get a "staph" infection you didn't have before entering because of a failure in hospital sanitation. At other Websites, I'v files dealing with "iatromathematics" and "iatroscience".

My argument is that, by DEFAULT, what we say and do too often is homologous to a MANY-ONE FUNCTION because it doesn't matter whether a slur or hurting was INTENTIONAL or NOT: the effect on on the recipient is THE SAME. DOUBLE BLIND POLLING could motivate public responsibility for "unibtebtinal" injuries. Could heal citizenship.

An old adage says, "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse." After taking this TEST, see if you agree with me. And if agreement modifies your behavior. If you disagree or have corrections or suggestions, please e-mail them: haysjohnva@hotmail.com.

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1. My late wife, Esther, disabled by polio since infancy, was several times provoked to tears by hearing some one use the word CRIPPLE on TV and in print.
2. The medical needs of women, children, and young people are misrepresented.
3. We ignore our MOST POWERFUL STRATEGY, IMPLICIT IN EVERY DAY EXPERIENCE.
4. The mother of a boy with Down's Syndrome complains of uses in the Media of "feeb" for "feeble-minded".
5. Public librarians do not use the main function of librarians to protect young people from ONLINE "pornography".
6. Many MEDIACS believe that celebrities have no right to privacy.
7. Scientific statements are DECLARATIVES which should be SUBJUNCTIVES.
8. A freqently used word for DISABLED persons is perjorative in its origin.
9. Not only the general public but science students and many scientifics cannot name OUR GREATEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST.
10. Historians speak of "The Industrial Revolution".
11. Not only the general public but philosophy students and academics cannot name our GREATEST AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER.
12. Mother dogs with puppies are frequently invoked in curses.
13. Most physicists and physics student ignore DIMENSIONAL ALGEBRA.
14. Our most powerful tool for DISCOVERY and LEARNING is neglcted or trivialized.
15. Economists do not explain the most important economic function.
16. The choice of Cape Canaveral in Florida as the rocket launching and primary landing site was political, not a scientific or engineering one.
17. Insurance companies use an EPISTEMIC interpretation of PROBABILITY to deny insurance coverage to applicants.
18. In 1948 American mathematician Norber Wiener warned about the downphasing that cancelled millions of guns in the 1990's but was ignored.
19. At least two Republican administrations have given Iraq WEAPONS OF DESTRUCTION, which in 2003 we demand they give up. Is this PLANT THEM & DIG THEM?
20. Many instances of "grading on the curve" violate statistical principles.
21. The National Rifle Association advocates gun ownership by adult Americans but does not support ownership of gun companies by Americans.
22. Mathematicians and physicists do not explicate for us our BEST MODEL FOR PROCESSES.
23. Depletion of the ozone layer which protects us from ultra-violet rays need bit have occurred.
24. Americans are not educated in the mathematics most needed in a Republic and a Market Economy.
25. There was a great increase in socalled "Christian" schools following 1954.
26. Government decision-makers sometimes base decisions on PROBABILITY OF AN EVENT.
27. An elderly woman falls and cannot arise, but her cries for help are ignored or laughed at.
28. Historians do not tell us about one of the most important events in history, which changed science, navigation, trade, etc.
29. The public is not told, either by the MEDIA or resonsible institutions, what motivated President's 1952 firing of General Douglas MacAethur in the Korean Police Action.
30. Republican majority in the Southern States began in 1948.
31. The man who, during WWII, saved far more Jews than Schindler was assassinated by Israelis -- an event downplayed by The Media.
32. The love-affair of the Public with Science is "a prescription for disaster".
33. The MEDICAL PROFESSION uses vague RHETORICAL EVALUATIONS to mask STATISTICS.
34. Decision-making in ECONOMICS and POLITICAL SCIENCE depend upon TRANSITIVITY of PREFERENCE and COMPETITION, subjects not explicitly discussed.
35. We are more provident with plants than we are with children.
36. The freeing of Americans slaves freed the corporation.
37. Children, young people, women, small men have been injured or killed by auto airbags tested only on normal size men.
38. STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL found widespred misapplication after World War II.
39. The MATHEMATICS INSTITUTION supports what has been called LYING ARITHMETIC, but not GENERATIVE MATH which avoids such LYING.
40. The RIGHT-TO-LIFE protesters are DOUBLE-STANDARD in their campaign.
41. Historians do not tell us about those who have most ENDOWED us with the MEANS for developing a REPUBLIC and a MARKET ECONOMY.
42. People who do not contribute one new cent to the Economy receive great adulation and income, while those who increase the Economy are neglected, ignored, denigrated, with much lower incomes.
43. Teachers use a TEST-TREAT procedure which is the EXACT OPPPOSITE of that of physicians.
44. Our STANDARDS FOR MEASUREMENT are only partially stated and partially enforced.
45. Hungarian-American Leo Szilard -- who in 1934 first patented the NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION, making the nuclear bomb possible -- in 1933 escaped from Nazi Germany and organized a movement saving hundreds of scientists. But this warning example was not acted upon by Jewish organizations in America.
46. The rampant CHEATING in our schools, colleges, universities can be ELIMINATED but is allowed to continue.
47. MEDIACS fail to inform us of critical information.
48. Advocacy of prayer in schools contravenes the counsel of Jesus.
49. We suffer from POVERTY OF STRATEGY in GOVERNMENT, THE MILITARY, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, BUSINESS, CHURCH, EDUCATION.
50. IMPROPER STATISTICS and ABSENCE OF STATISTICS shield doctors from charges of malpractice.