Human Machine Epistemology Survey
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paper_title: Augmented Human Engineering: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach to Human Systems Integration

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This chapter focuses on one of the main issues for augmented human engineering: integrating the biological user's needs in its methodology for designing human-artefact systems integration requirements and specifications. To take into account biological, anatomical and physiological requirements we need a validated theoretical framework. We explain how to ground augmented human engineering on the Chauvet mathematical theory of integrative physiology as a fundamental framework for human system integration and augmented human design. We propose to validate and assess augmented human domain engineering models and prototypes by experimental neurophysiology.
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paper_title: A technique for the measurement of attitudes

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THIS paper describes a technique which has been developed for the measurement of race prejudice. This technique differs from most prejudice inventories in that it avoids the following assumptions: (a) that the individual can say, to his own or the investigator's satisfaction, "This is how prejudiced I am," and (b) that, to the extent that the individual can accurately assess his degree of antipathy, he will report honestly the findings of such introspection. Most sociologists would perhaps agree that race attitudes rarely reside on a completely articulate level. Even where the individual holds to intellectual or ideological convictions which would seem to leave no room for out-group antipathies, such do persevere. Thus, we may expect the number of Americans who honestly think themselves "unprejudiced" to be considerably larger than effective research would reveal. Moreover, the number who present themselves as unprejudiced probably exceeds considerably the number who honestly, though often inaccurately, see themselves in this light. Most indirect techniques for the measurement of attitudes have their rationale in observations such as these. The instrument to be described here is not, however, indirect in the usual sense of the word; it does not seek responses to items apparently unrelated to the attitudes investigated. We do, however, seek to measure prejudice in a manner less direct than is true of the usual prejudice scale. In our instrument we seek to measure anti-Negro prejudice. Persons are called upon to respond on social distance scales to whites and Negroes who occupy a variety of occupational positions. The measure of prejudice is derived through the summation of the differences in distance responses to Negroes as opposed to whites in the same occupations. Thus, for lack of a better label,
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paper_title: A technique for the measurement of attitudes

paper_content:

THIS paper describes a technique which has been developed for the measurement of race prejudice. This technique differs from most prejudice inventories in that it avoids the following assumptions: (a) that the individual can say, to his own or the investigator's satisfaction, "This is how prejudiced I am," and (b) that, to the extent that the individual can accurately assess his degree of antipathy, he will report honestly the findings of such introspection. Most sociologists would perhaps agree that race attitudes rarely reside on a completely articulate level. Even where the individual holds to intellectual or ideological convictions which would seem to leave no room for out-group antipathies, such do persevere. Thus, we may expect the number of Americans who honestly think themselves "unprejudiced" to be considerably larger than effective research would reveal. Moreover, the number who present themselves as unprejudiced probably exceeds considerably the number who honestly, though often inaccurately, see themselves in this light. Most indirect techniques for the measurement of attitudes have their rationale in observations such as these. The instrument to be described here is not, however, indirect in the usual sense of the word; it does not seek responses to items apparently unrelated to the attitudes investigated. We do, however, seek to measure prejudice in a manner less direct than is true of the usual prejudice scale. In our instrument we seek to measure anti-Negro prejudice. Persons are called upon to respond on social distance scales to whites and Negroes who occupy a variety of occupational positions. The measure of prejudice is derived through the summation of the differences in distance responses to Negroes as opposed to whites in the same occupations. Thus, for lack of a better label,
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Title: Human Machine Epistemology Survey

Section 1: The integrative way of looking at things
Description 1: Introduce the necessity of a unified and comprehensive approach to human-artefact Systems, emphasizing the system's transdisciplinary dimension.

Section 2: The generic system
Description 2: Define a generic framework for describing systems, focusing on the dimensions of requirement and specification, and how these relate to the system's identity.

Section 3: The link between theory and practice
Description 3: Discuss the challenges of conveying epistemological concepts to practitioners and how theoretical backgrounds influence professional practice.

Section 4: Hypothesis
Description 4: Present the hypotheses being tested by the survey, focusing on group coherence and the relation to canonical traditions.

Section 5: Method
Description 5: Outline the qualitative methods used to identify scientific beliefs shared across different domains.

Section 6: Survey
Description 6: Describe the survey methodology, including item selection, questionnaire design, and administration through the LimeSurvey platform.

Section 7: Principal Component Analysis
Description 7: Explain the use of PCA as a method to identify principal components and assess group homogeneity within the survey responses.

Section 8: Hierarchical clustering and classification
Description 8: Detail the hierarchical clustering method to divide groups based on eigenvalue variation and analyze the resulting clusters.

Section 9: Graphs of correlation
Description 9: Illustrate how correlation graphs are created from the survey data to visualize the influences and coherence of responses.

Section 10: Results
Description 10: Present the findings of the statistical analysis, clustering, and validation of hypotheses, emphasizing the identified groups and their adherence to canonical traditions.

Section 11: Description of the population
Description 11: Provide demographic details of the survey participants and validate the representativeness of the sample population.

Section 12: Conclusions
Description 12: Summarize the implications of the survey results for the conception and design of human-machine systems, highlighting the impact of ad hoc conceptual considerations.