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5:05 PM 6/10/2025THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKTesting whether Aron & Melinat’s interpersonal closeness mechanism can work at Deutsch’s security community scale under Allport’s contact conditions to create Putnam’s domestic political constraints. I’m going to write about the theoretical framework for the lessonslides.com project. The mission is for global human security. The idea is that virtual meetings can create connections between people, and that connections between people across boundaries will prevent conflict through a number of ways. Here are the theories that I build…

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Continued from part I of this conversation. Here is a sort of protocol that I am considering for analysis of where to build connections. I’ve drawn some diagrams, which may be abstract. You can let me know if you understand the diagrams or not. They correspond to the following descriptions: Diagram A Where two nations are at high risk of conflict, create connections between the allies and trading partners of each one, as well as between the countries themselves and…

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1. Security Communities Theory (Karl Deutsch) 2. Contact Theory (Allport, applied to IR) 3. Two-Level Game Theory (Robert Putnam) 4. The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings Your Theoretical Framework Now: Research Innovation: You’re testing whether Aron & Melinat’s interpersonal closeness mechanism can work at Deutsch’s security community scale under Allport’s contact conditions to create Putnam’s domestic political constraints. Research Question: “Can structured self-disclosure in educational settings create the interpersonal closeness that scales up to…

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Protocol Where two nations are at high risk of conflict, create connections between the allies and trading partners of each one, as well as between the countries themselves and their most likely migration destinations. Where a nation with much higher GDP and a nation with much lower GDP are adjacent and the small power contains valuable resources, create connections between the two, as well as between the smaller power and its regional peers. Needed information Data Source Recommendations: GDP: Natural…

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YR I generate lessons using a template system, and I record the values for each lesson in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is essentially a database. Anyway, I’m planning to migrate my current system to an actual database. I wonder whether or not i should consider storing the content data as a json field. I think it may add flexibility as a design decision, but I’m not sure how much. Also, I’m not sure how json works and where the actual…

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Select countries in orange were selected based on BOTH being a designated developing or emerging economy AND having a mobile phone subscription rate of 95 or more per 100 people. The green dots on show places in the selected countries with more than 725,000 people. When I filter the minimum population for just mid-sized cities of 533950 – 701680 people, it returns 55 cities in 25 countries. city country Min Population Oran Algeria 798000 Mar del Plata Argentina 555897 Rajshahi…

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In the next couple posts (part 1 and part 2), I’ll show you how I made the suitability map for this online English class. Data is everywhere. You can download it from free sources, or you can create your own data. For this project, I will download data. I went to worldbank data website and browsed various datasets for economy, infrastructure, demographics, education. Here is a chart I made to show internet users (%) by country. How can data be…

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What is a statistical indicator? A statistical indicator is the representation of statistical data for a specified time, place or any other relevant characteristic, corrected for at least one dimension (usually size) so as to allow for meaningful comparisons. (definition from this glossary). Statistical indicators allow us to compare countries by certain characteristics. I would like to understand what characteristics of Vietnam make it good for an online English class, and what other countries are similar to Vietnam in those ways. That…

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