Sunday, May 17, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Moral obligation and SD
Ok. Perak is in chaos. It makes history - a state that has two MB. I am not going to comment on this situation. This is not my expert thou.... It is just I need to construct a visual of a reality. (?). How am I suppose to say this ... It is hard to write than throw it in verbal.
Let me make it clear. My SV inspired me when he talked about moral obligation and his responsibility for the young generation in Japan. He write a book entitled Social Dilemma and he has a class for this subject. It is in Japanese Language so I cannot attend the class. Two phases "moral obligation" and "social dilemma" hit my mind and patriotism. Or it is a moral obligation feeling!
It is hard for me to describe moral obligation and social dilemma stuff here. I am lack of words. But if anybody interest about it, just hit the Google and read about it. Yup, it is a kind of social psychology thing but what it has to do with transportation anyway? If you have the opportunity to live in this Japanese community, you must be surely understand what it is all about. It is not just about the area or field of knowledge but it is about the fundamental of a society's mind set.
When I first came to Japan, I asked myself...why is this community has such as this kind of manner - respect others'. It is just like what everybody else thing about. Then, me and my friend got the opportunity to understand the meaning of 'I have rights for my own thing, don't dare to disturb. Please respect!' - Japanese are really strict for their own things - like car park, private stuff, even tranquility. However, they are also very respect to public/sharing stuffs...if you have a dog, so you have the responsibility for the dog's "excrement"... Please pick it up!
What is this all about? It is a fundamental of moral obligation and social dilemma. They fix the social dilemma by educating the nations with moral obligation. Sounds easy but how did they make it? Back to Malaysia's situation with political error (?), mat rempits, accidents, bribery, crimes, etc.... we actually lack of this fundamental of moral obligation. It is because we cannot understand what is our social dilemma all about and we never make a pure, focus and vigorous step to make a research on it. So, we failed to educate our nations what is the meaning of tolerate and success. ( Read more on Prisoner's Dilemma.)
The interesting fact here is these kind of social psychology things play with probabilities, statistics and mathematics which the Japanese are really strong. It is about the Game Theory that has something to do with transportation modelling and travel behavior analysis. It is also play rules in economic and urban planning. Is it means that because of we are lacking this math things we failed to understand the dilemmas?? Is it means because we don't know how to build up a prediction model, so we failed to fix the social problems??
We, researchers have a lot of works to do. Called by my SV's determination towards his young Japanese - I feel a moral obligation towards mine too...How about you?
p/s: our politic is just suits the prisoner's dilemma case!
Let me make it clear. My SV inspired me when he talked about moral obligation and his responsibility for the young generation in Japan. He write a book entitled Social Dilemma and he has a class for this subject. It is in Japanese Language so I cannot attend the class. Two phases "moral obligation" and "social dilemma" hit my mind and patriotism. Or it is a moral obligation feeling!
It is hard for me to describe moral obligation and social dilemma stuff here. I am lack of words. But if anybody interest about it, just hit the Google and read about it. Yup, it is a kind of social psychology thing but what it has to do with transportation anyway? If you have the opportunity to live in this Japanese community, you must be surely understand what it is all about. It is not just about the area or field of knowledge but it is about the fundamental of a society's mind set.
When I first came to Japan, I asked myself...why is this community has such as this kind of manner - respect others'. It is just like what everybody else thing about. Then, me and my friend got the opportunity to understand the meaning of 'I have rights for my own thing, don't dare to disturb. Please respect!' - Japanese are really strict for their own things - like car park, private stuff, even tranquility. However, they are also very respect to public/sharing stuffs...if you have a dog, so you have the responsibility for the dog's "excrement"... Please pick it up!
What is this all about? It is a fundamental of moral obligation and social dilemma. They fix the social dilemma by educating the nations with moral obligation. Sounds easy but how did they make it? Back to Malaysia's situation with political error (?), mat rempits, accidents, bribery, crimes, etc.... we actually lack of this fundamental of moral obligation. It is because we cannot understand what is our social dilemma all about and we never make a pure, focus and vigorous step to make a research on it. So, we failed to educate our nations what is the meaning of tolerate and success. ( Read more on Prisoner's Dilemma.)
The interesting fact here is these kind of social psychology things play with probabilities, statistics and mathematics which the Japanese are really strong. It is about the Game Theory that has something to do with transportation modelling and travel behavior analysis. It is also play rules in economic and urban planning. Is it means that because of we are lacking this math things we failed to understand the dilemmas?? Is it means because we don't know how to build up a prediction model, so we failed to fix the social problems??
We, researchers have a lot of works to do. Called by my SV's determination towards his young Japanese - I feel a moral obligation towards mine too...How about you?
p/s: our politic is just suits the prisoner's dilemma case!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
AMOS the analysis of moment structure
Weather is getting hot here. I am fasting today and quite sleepy. Maybe coz yesterday I cycled quite far - from my home Katsura to Arashiyama. It was very nice and unforgetable journey even just about for two hours... :)))
I just want to put some information about my modeling progress. I believe modeling is easier than programing. I try to memorize back the AMOS that I had play with a year ago. Yikes..I forgot it... not totally but I wonder how can I play with it with out user guide. So I try to relocate the memory. After about 3 hours I gained it back. My mistake is just because not go through the document carefully. Theee heee heee..... So greedy to learn but not in smart way I think. I learn that make notes is sometime make your life easier - management thing!!!
This SEM tool actually opens the door for nonstatistician to solve estimation and hyphotheses testing problems that we would have required the services of the specialist. But by this tool, we can test the hyphotheses by ourselves. It is just about how to learn it and many people like to learn by doing. That's why the user guide is important.
Talking about the AMOS, it provides methods for estimating these structural equations
Maximum Likehood, Unweighted Least Squares, Generalized Least Squares, Browne's asymptotically..., Scale Free Least Square.
I wonder why I don't know these thing and what had happened in my statistic class in my old days! Just one thought - MALAYSIAN we need Math & Sc to survive!
I just want to put some information about my modeling progress. I believe modeling is easier than programing. I try to memorize back the AMOS that I had play with a year ago. Yikes..I forgot it... not totally but I wonder how can I play with it with out user guide. So I try to relocate the memory. After about 3 hours I gained it back. My mistake is just because not go through the document carefully. Theee heee heee..... So greedy to learn but not in smart way I think. I learn that make notes is sometime make your life easier - management thing!!!
This SEM tool actually opens the door for nonstatistician to solve estimation and hyphotheses testing problems that we would have required the services of the specialist. But by this tool, we can test the hyphotheses by ourselves. It is just about how to learn it and many people like to learn by doing. That's why the user guide is important.
Talking about the AMOS, it provides methods for estimating these structural equations
Maximum Likehood, Unweighted Least Squares, Generalized Least Squares, Browne's asymptotically..., Scale Free Least Square.
I wonder why I don't know these thing and what had happened in my statistic class in my old days! Just one thought - MALAYSIAN we need Math & Sc to survive!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Spring time..
It is a tulip season in Japan Wow it seems thaat I take quite a long time to write again! A lot of things happened of course and it is hard for me to report everything. The winter season which I don’t really prefer had finished and the weather turns to very nice and warm suits with my feeling. Even almost every day it is raining but the colorful flowers seem blooming everywhere.
The Golden Week has passed by. A week before that, I had an academic camp with my lab mates with our new sensei in Biwako in Shiga prefecture. Well, I can say as a – mengeratkan silaturrahim purpose -. Our new leader, I mean our new sensei has a very different perspective than our last Kitamura sensei. He is younger, more energetic and somehow very sporting. I had a chance to chat with him. He told us that, when he was 25 or 26 years old he used to join a band as a vocalist. I heard that he is really good in singing. One interesting thing about him is when he talks; he will use very loud voice and become very enthusiastic. Each times, he will asks the student to live this life for God, not only for the sake of oneself.
He believes in God (but he doesn’t has religion) and he said that recently, young generations of Japan facing the social dilemmas. They become selfish and lost respect to old peoples and traditions. What he thought is something that really different and mostly of Japanese don’t really care about God. He wants to change the perspective. That’s why he always gives a kind of motivation for Japanese students. In Nihon – Go of course….
But what important for me is – he makes my work easier. I have finished designing the questionnaire and waiting time to collect the data. He likes it - that is the most important thing. I have two months to accomplish everything before I can analyze and write journals. I heard he has a lot of PhD students that can finish the PhD in 2 years. I am not hoping to come back before the time but hoping to gain the PhD on the time! I have a lot of plans after that…. Life is not easy, thou!!!
I need to discipline myself a little bit. Put effort on writing practice, working more on mathematical models, and be fast. Well...The season that I love the most has come!
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