[Dean's World] Dean: The Z Axis

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Posted by Dean:
The Z Axis
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1144528142.shtml


   The left-right political spectrum has never made sense. To the best of
   my knowledge, [1]Jerry Pournelle was the first to propose that we have
   two axes to measure politics, an X and a Y. It's a neat attempt, but
   the funny part is that different people plot different things on the X
   and the Y.

   Some have proposed that greater accuracy might be found with a third
   axis, a 3-dimentional model and not just 2-dimensional. But I've never
   heard of a good proposal for what the third axis would be. But Larry
   Bernard makes the case that [2]information may be the long-sought Z
   axis.

   Hmmm.

References

   1. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
   2. http://larry-bernard.blogspot.com/2006/04/end-of-xy-birth-of-xyz.html