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too little force over a very long distance.
That's almost the entire physics point behind the equation but oh well.
too little force over a very long distance.
A perfect example is the guy I saw sitting on the curb with a sign that said "No work, need money, food" with a "Now Taking Applications" sign right behind him on the local Waffle House. Last time I checked, the Waffle House will hire anyone that can breath and blink at the same time. Some Americans need to take their nose out of the air and work wherever they can. I distinctly remember my father working 2 jobs. One delivering milk, the other as custodian for Servicemaster. He had no pride when it came to providing for my mom, brother, and me. Whatever put food on the table was done.
That's almost the entire physics point behind the equation but oh well.
of course.......Obama......
The problem with society isn't that people are lazy... its that they are so damn stupid.
I'd say that the choice of being lazy in many cases is stupid. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people fuss about something they are capable of solving.
To answer the OP, there are multiple ways you could measure laziness. The simplest way is to consider how much more work could have potentially been done to avoid meeting the standards set. If the answer is "zero" then that implies another issue was the source of the failure. Otherwise, the extra actions listed which were willingly omitted and knowingly beneficial can each go under the laziness column and weighted by the effort they require.
I don't think laziness is something we should try measure. Laziness is just implied by a lack of results.
It's not implied purely by lack of results. The kid struggling to learn math may have a learning disability rather than lack of effort.
Let's consider a task where efforts are obviously comparable. Suppose the family gets home from grocery shopping and needs to get six bags from the car to the house. Since fully loaded, the most anyone can carry is 2 at a time. Adam grabs two bags, Bob just takes one and Charles doesn't carry any. Bob and Charles are clearly the two we'd call lazy, because they could have helped complete the task all in one trip. Furthermore, using what I described in my last post of taking what more could have been done to succeed, we can order
Alex < Bob < Charles (0 < 1 < 2)
with respect to their laziness in this event.