Different Worlds

Same Planet, Different Worlds

In this interview with social scientist Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., Pathways associate editor Lisa Reagan connects the dots between her insights from 15 years of holistic family wellness advocacy and Ray’s investigation of Cultural Creatives, a growing segment of the Western population transforming mainstream culture. Driven by their holistic values, integrated worldview and ability to synthesize vast ...

When Worlds Collide: Integrating Different Counterfactual Assumptions in Fairness

Machine learning is now being used to make crucial decisions about people’s lives. For nearly all of these decisions there is a risk that individuals of a certain race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other subpopulation are unfairly discriminated against. Our recent method has demonstrated how to use techniques from counterfactual inference to make predictions fair across different subpopul...

QKD in Classic Optical Networks: Two different worlds forever?

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is maturing quickly. However, the current approach as a collection of dedicated point‐to‐point connections over dark fibers specially assigned to the QKD‐link turn it to an expensive technology. Thereby the cost of ownership will be determined by the cost of fiber infrastructure. To cut costs a straightforward strategy is to combine QKD‐links to QKD‐networks or to...

Understanding Different Worlds : The Theory of Dimensional Accruall Dissociation

Theories of communication abound. Most attempt to explain communication as if it were a uniform behavior which can be understood by a universal set of axioms or a set of unilinear variables. However, research in multicultural, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication has generated data that defy a singular theory or set of universal laws. The values of parsimony and heuristic scope that ...

Inhabiting different worlds: how can research relate to practice?