Re: virus: Experimental memes.

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 17 Aug 98 23:16:52 -0400

>If they answer the question correctly, they had to know the answer and
>therefore had the meme.

I am not convinced that rote answering is any sort of meme at all- or an
indication of the prescence of one. Why are you?

And, as well, a situation where someone answers 'I am not a crook' to the
cops, while perhaps the 'correct' answer, the fact is, a test of
questions with expected answers is a highly complex and unreliable
indicator of memetic intent, ain't it? Honestly, where _are_ your
controls? Valuable psychological data only comes from highly strictured
experiments, with rigid and narrow confines of data.

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