Posted on 06/10/2005 12:54:05 PM PDT by kjvail
Do you have a link for this?
Thanks
No I don't actually, crossposted from another board I participate in. That poster didn't give a link.
Fascinating is the word.
IS this it? http://home.pacbell.net/claydale/corners.htm
Without reading it in its entirity ya I think that's it. Thanks.
Mark for when I have half a day to read. ;-)
bttt for later read
Try this one: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/rauch050802.asp
It appears the original publication was in the April 2002 issue of Atlantic monthly: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200204/rauch&e=9711
You're welcome.
Great Find!
Great stuff. They should model cell behaviour in the same way and see what it tells us about cancer.
Good post. Social sciences are usually about twenty years or more behind the natural sciences and economics in applying new mathematical insights. PCs and cheap math software seems to be changing that, and the discovery and application of power laws in social sciences is going to be a big thing over the next generation.
Back-up career, in case MORS ever flops. LOL.
Someone else may have already suggested this. I copied the url out of the piece, put it into alltheweb (a search engine) and it took me to Atlantic Monthly, April 2002--the article in question.
It is worth going there to see the graphics as you read the article.
RoK
I remember another simulation study from a while back that modeled insurrection behavior. The upshot of it was a validation of the "boiling frog" approach: each actor has a threshhold where a particular level of oppression will cause him to rebel. If the oppression level is increased too suddenly, the number of actors that go into rebellion gets too high for the security people to control. But if you do things gradually enough, a small enough number of actors has had enough at each level that they can be picked off
Truly fascinating. I literally could not stop reading it, it was so compelling. Definitely worth a save for later re-read.
*Bump*
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