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Segregation and Simulation

posted by janrinok on Monday December 15 2014, @02:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-like-triangles! dept.

tonyPick writes:

The parable of the polygons is an interactive (Javascript based) page which shows how small individual biases can lead to large collective biases, and the impacts of actively promoting diversity on the outcomes.

Our cute segregation simulation is based off the work of Nobel Prize-winning game theorist, Thomas Schelling. Specifically, his 1971 paper, Dynamic Models of Segregation [PDF]. We built on top of this, and showed how a small demand for diversity can desegregate a neighborhood. In other words, we gave his model a happy ending.

The bottom of the page has a set of links to relevant research articles.

Spotted on the Physics week in review

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 16 2014, @12:12AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday December 16 2014, @12:12AM (#126350) Homepage
    I was particularly impressed that it worked fine on my ancient firefox 3.5. One of the few sites I've enabled JS for for ages, and it as worth it. Good work, Vi!
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