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...necessarily know each other, but are connected in some distant way, tend to stop smoking at the same time. "People tend to quit smoking in droves, and this coordinated quitting is literally like a flock of birds changing direction," says Christakis. "So smoking is not an individual behavior, but rather a collective process...
...These folks then influence their social circles, and so forth, until people several degrees removed from the index case also become nonsmokers. In the study, even people who did not mutually identify themselves as friends, but were in the same social network, were affected by each other's behavior: people who labeled themselves as friends of the index case, for example, but were not similarly identified as friends by the index case, were still 20% less likely to smoke if the index case decided to quit...
...from 1.9 million in 1996, two years after the end of apartheid. On May 21, the institute castigated Mbeki's performance, listing crime, unemployment, education and corruption as key failures. "In failing to maintain the rule of law, the state had conditioned many poor communities to violent behavior," it said...
...most celebrated novel. Although García Márquez may be correct about Latin America as a whole, the Bolivian navy does not fit his regional argument. This is not just because other landlocked countries, like Rwanda and Serbia, also have navies. Rather, it is because irrational behavior has always been at the core of international relations...
...Recently, models have become an increasingly popular way to predict outcomes in a variety of arenas. Most notably, this applies to economic research. Drawing from both times of boom and bust, investment firms have built detailed models to predict the behavior of specific stocks and markets as a whole. These models are driven by cutting-edge mathematical research on topics ranging from game theory to risk calculations. Perhaps less publicly, many have tried to use similar models in international politics, convinced that several of the insights from market research can help illuminate how political actors make decisions...