<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">From here it looks like the Southern Baptist Church would take the honors: dogma is set in stone; lots of members. Take away "in Adam's fall we sinned all" and the whole thing comes down flat.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">As for colleges I'd say it depends on what department you are talking about. Art, for instance. Even thinking about art is art, so they are wide open. Music accepts total silence as music (Cage). Sciences are flexible if they are following the data well. Psy. too. Sociology is hopeless 10 until they give way on genetics (small numbers though, since some colleges are eliminating the department). Education changes their dogma constantly, always for the wrong reasons, but at least you can say they are flexible. English I have not kept up with, though they too are apt to embrace new and wild and wooly theories, only to be dumped after a few thousands get tenure for papers written on the new theory. Part of the English dept. is in favor of words meaning whatever people want them to mean, and the others what they used to mean. History I have no idea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">So you see, I have little experience outside the ivory tower. I am anxious to see what people think about economics. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:20 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-6966537100155847280WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What is the most change-averse institutions in modern society? John Burch Society? OK sure but mainstream. Presbyterian church? Hmmm… warmer but still not really mainstream and you might be surprised on their attitude toward change.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Imagine setting up a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being most change-averse and then multiplying by the order of magnitude of people who are in some way involved in that. So… Burch Society is about a 3: a few thousand people take that seriously, and Presbyterian, a 5? OK then.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Imagine your change-averse times numbers of people involved in some way, and think of who ranks up near the top of that scale.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">To simplify matters, you can work with just your own country or subset of humanity where you know the rules. I will focus on USA, having no expertise outside (haven’t been there or done that (hope to someday (but won’t get on a plane or ship (unless they carry me aboard in a wooden box.))))<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK, see the game? Number of people (OOM) times change aversity.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My highest ranking institution is…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Public education in general, the university system in particular. The number of people involved in that is in about the 8 range, with a score I estimated for aversion to change around at least 8 or 9, so we are way up in the 60 to 70 zone with the product.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Commentary to follow, but I want to read what you have to say first.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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