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Created: September 22, 2003
Latest Update: September 22, 2003
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Commentary on
Visual Interpretation of Answerability

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, September 2003.
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On Thursday, September 18, 2003, Quan Banks, CSUDH, wrote:

In your discussion ?'s what were you trying to describe in the connected boxes was that everything is connected in this crazy world. we all affect one another somehow. but i saw the picture as something of a balance. a simple example: there's men, so we need women. a complex example, without a deficit there would never be a surplus and vice-versa. you gotta take the good with the bad That's an interesting interpretation, Quan. The idea of balance fits with the idea of interdependence, and that certainly fits with answerability in hierarchical organizations. I think we need to identify the organizational chart in the background, as against the humans (agents) who have removed themselves from the boxes and are engaged in interpersonal communication.

It's interesting that you picked up the balance concept, even though the stat class hadn't had as much time to assimilate answerability as a concept. I value your interpretation, because your perspective probably comes closer to the ordinary person than does that of someone in say, the agencies class, where we have discussed answerability a lot more. jeanne