There are lots of very peculiar answers, often involving hand-waving and slogans – "The Will of the people!" "The Constitution!" "Grundnorms!" – but they're not terribly satisfying.
The results can be deflating, as the researchers find that their subjects are not stupid or crazy or heroic or transcendent — their cultural traditions just don't seem peculiar enough to answer the questions that motivate the research.
One answer is that peculiar institutions can tell us a lot about more run-of-the-mill ones.
One answer, at once peculiar and persuasive, lies in the unassuming person of Lebel, a consistently reassuring presence who seems, even when bearing very bad news, to provide a measure of calm and safety.
Although she settled on "Village Utopias" instead, Yallop argues that the impulse behind the two kinds of model village can be pretty similar – a desire to create and tinker with an ideal community in microcosm, one over which the creator has absolute power, and whose population cannot answer back; a peculiar and very English combination of the despotic and the cutesy.
In the case of Abkhazia, where tourists blithely treat the beaches of another nation as if they were their own, the answers show how peculiar these enclaves are, and how elusive solutions will be.
The answer lies in the peculiar view of economics adopted by most mainstream economists.
Table 6 shows the breakdown of the types of investigated question items with at least one "bad" option that showed the peculiar ICRP behaviour (MD for correct answers and MI for distractors).
In general, numerous candidate answers to a question are produced, and their analyses provide hundreds of features whose weights for obtaining ranked answers with corresponding confidence levels are learned by ML methods applied to a corpus of past Jeopardy! questions and answers (or officially, answers and questions, according to the peculiar conceit of the Jeopardy! protocol).
The answer lies in music's peculiar ability to touch the emotions, particularly sadness and a sense of loss.
