December 9, 2014
Diversity and segregation
A very nice interactive game and simulation by Vi Hart and Nicky Case, showing how very high levels of segregation can result even from just a preference for not being overwhelming outnumbered.
On the positive side, a fairly small active preference for diversity can overcome this problem.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
A very well done version of Thomas Schellings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling Segregation model and reminder of the importance of slight preferences.
Thanks for this – useful tool certainly a better update of the MIT Schelling model http://web.mit.edu/rajsingh/www/lab/alife/schelling.html
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