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“Not only are intelligence and aptitudes unequally distributed among the members of society, but the residues as well.“ Maybe it’s just early in the morning he
by gdubs 6y ago
“Not only are intelligence and aptitudes unequally distributed among the members of society, but the residues as well.“
Maybe it’s just early in the morning here, but I’m having trouble parsing this sentence. What does “the residues” mean in this context?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's not just you. I'm not familiar with this usage of the term.
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- bsima 6y agoI think it refers to downstream effects of intelligence and aptitudes. For example if I'm really smart, and I make a lot of money and leave my children a generous inheritance, their privilege is a residue of my gifted aptitude.
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- karmakaze 6y agoI sort of read that as 'residuals' which is still used to describe some types of benefits.
- urubu 6y agoPareto made a distinction between 'residues' (psychological bases underlying social action) and 'derivations' (rationalizations by members of society as justifications of those actions). It might be used in that sense here.
- Jugurtha 6y agoThe little things which are left, but here's a throwback to "Cauchy's residue theorem"[0] to make this more fun. You can also think of power spectrum analysis, not all frequencies have the same "power". Though in a time-frequency representation, not all frequencies have the same energy at every moment. - [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_theorem