Friday, May 21, 2004
Why Girls are Evil but Men are Worse
Mathematical proof of socially accepted norms. (It is tounge in cheek :-)).
But this is interesting on different levels: this is a fairly old 'proof' but has been resurrected on the blogsphere, and is 'doing the rounds'. The concept of doing the rounds is interesting, from a social interaction perspective, as it suggests that we have a need for a shared social perspective and hence pass information on, spreading it wider and wider, until it becomes old info and slowly dies out. But it rarely becomes extinct, and some time later it reapprears, finds a new audience or reminds the old one, and spreads again. I'm sure that there are models for the cycle time of such phenomena, and that they would show that the half-life of ideas will be somehow related to the number of blogs/participants in the discussions - the more blogs, the longer stuff stays around, but the longer it is between cycles, is my prediction. If I have time, I'll model it and let you know.
Mathematical proof of socially accepted norms. (It is tounge in cheek :-)).
But this is interesting on different levels: this is a fairly old 'proof' but has been resurrected on the blogsphere, and is 'doing the rounds'. The concept of doing the rounds is interesting, from a social interaction perspective, as it suggests that we have a need for a shared social perspective and hence pass information on, spreading it wider and wider, until it becomes old info and slowly dies out. But it rarely becomes extinct, and some time later it reapprears, finds a new audience or reminds the old one, and spreads again. I'm sure that there are models for the cycle time of such phenomena, and that they would show that the half-life of ideas will be somehow related to the number of blogs/participants in the discussions - the more blogs, the longer stuff stays around, but the longer it is between cycles, is my prediction. If I have time, I'll model it and let you know.
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