I suspect much of this is pessimistic bias in action. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter#Pessimistic_bias Regards, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20120430/84ca849d/attachment.html>