Introducing the Basic Variety

Introducing Variety in Risk Management

“Yesterday the S&P500 went up by 3%”. Is this number telling all the story if half the stocks went up 5% and half went down 1%? Surely one can do a little better and give two figures, the average and the dispersion around this average, that two of us have recently christened the variety [1]. Call ri(t) the return of asset i on day t. The variety V(t) is simply the root mean square of the stock ...

On the Basic Correspondence of a Splitting Variety

The desire for sexual variety as a key to understanding basic human mating strategies

Different authors have proposed competing evolutionary theories of human mating. Some argue that both sexes are designed to pursue a singular long-term mating strategy. Others contend that both sexes are designed to function as essentially multiple maters. Sexual Strategies Theory (SST; D.M. Buss & D.P. Schmitt, 1993), in contrast, proposes that men and women have evolved short-term and long-te...

GENDER INTEGRATION IN BASIC TRAINING: The Services Are Using a Variety of Approaches

Contested Gender Equality and Policy Variety in Europe: Introducing a Critical Frame Analysis Approach