User talk:K/Research3

Human interaction involves many multiple fallible indicators. This term, traditionally used to describe mating choices, also is a reasonable way to describe personal choices of thought and action in the world.

Like it or not, though, we are capable of analyzing only one or two, at most a few, of these factors when examining human tought and action. ... This, of course, typically leaves many gaps in the analysis of what causes what-- because there are many causes. We may like to reduce our conversations of these to statements like "when X happens, you do Y", meaning, of course, that "when X happened, I did Y"; or we may reduce it to statistical generalizations like "when X happens, 60% of people will do Y", etc... Or we can reduce it to a story involving a number of human dynamics, the job of analyzing those dynamics being left to the students of the story itself, literary critics and scholars, serious readers in discussion groups, etc.