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At Mic is an article on research on the statistics behind why all hipsters look the same, reporting on a paper by Jonathan Touboul, a mathematical neuroscientist at the Collège de France in Paris.
Touboul argues that statistical physics explains how the anticonforming unintentionally become the expected. Although we all suspected that any one locally sourced-coffee-sipping hipster is pretty similar to another, Touboul puts it into scientific language.
[...] Aside from applying his findings towards French hipsters, a particularly ironic crowd, Toubol believes his work could also shed light on correlations in other statistical models, such as making financial decisions like trading stocks against the majority trends to make serious profits.
The paper is available on arXiv; The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same [PDF].
Originally spotted via Science news.
(Score: 4, Funny) by hubie on Wednesday November 05 2014, @10:19PM
The paper is disappointing in that, for a paper about hipsters, there's not a single picture of a pair of skinny jeans in it. I bet the author did that to be ironic.