In the social sciences, refers to the effectiveness with which a social benefit reaches its intended beneficiaries. When most of the cost of a particular social good is absorbed by intermediaries, such as scalpers and profiteers, distributional efficiency is low.
The state-owned auditorium hands out a fixed number of free tickets to students to promote the arts, but nearly all of them sell the tickets to scalpers for the money. It's very poor distributional efficiency.
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distorian—noun 1. a person who distorts, rather than honestly reports, history. 2. a person who, under the guise of reporting history, engages in a diatribe, debunking, or moral defenestration. 3. a person whose view of history is decidedly downbeat or misanthropic. adjective, of or concerning such a faux-historical or negative attitude or reporting.
A White House distorian says George Bush is the best president the US has ever had.
That new book that claims there was no Holocaust was obviously written by a distorian.
All those gloomy-doomy types that deny the world is constantly getting better are taking a distorian view of things.
That new book that claims there was no Holocaust was obviously written by a distorian.
All those gloomy-doomy types that deny the world is constantly getting better are taking a distorian view of things.
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This includes depression, anxiety, being too self-conscious, insomnia, inability to control emotions, angry outbursts, or shutting down emotionally, feeling numb or disconnected from society, disordered eating, not seeing things the way they really are, delusions, hallucinations, unfair prejudices, lying, thinking people are out to get you, trying to control others and not controlling yourself and/or judging and criticizing others harshly.
This includes depression, anxiety, being too self-conscious, insomnia, inability to control emotions, angry outbursts, or shutting down emotionally, feeling numb or disconnected from society, disordered eating, not seeing things the way they really are, delusions, hallucinations, unfair prejudices, lying, thinking people are out to get you, trying to control others and not controlling yourself and/or judging and criticizing others harshly.
Pat claims to be “gender fluid”. In truth, Pat is a classic example of a gender fluid person who has the right to choose their own gender orientation. Anyone who thinks otherwise has unfair prejudices and is, therefore, mentally disturbed.
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Get the Distance mug.A nu-metal (generally pertaining to their first album, The Sickness)/hard rock (the latter albums, Believe and Ten Thousand Fists) band mostly known for their debut and its most popular single, "Down With The Sickness". Therefore, they are generally dismissed as an immature, typical nu-metal band. While The Sickness is decent, their follow-up, Believe, contains melodic and complex elements that more than surpass it. Their most recent album, Ten Thousand Fists, effectively combines the anger of The Sickness and the focused creativity of Believe. Most listeners do not realize this, of course.
Disturbed Fan: So, how about Disturbed?
Typical Radio Listener: Dude, aren't they the guys that scream like monkeys and bang on the drums?
Disturbed Fan: Then I take it you haven't heard anything released by them after 2000.
Typical Radio Listener: Dude, aren't they the guys that scream like monkeys and bang on the drums?
Disturbed Fan: Then I take it you haven't heard anything released by them after 2000.
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