> But in attempting to draw an equivalence between the physical flow of liquids and the emotional “flow” of human beings, Losada had simply lifted the numbers t

> But in attempting to draw an equivalence between the physical flow of liquids and the emotional “flow” of human beings, Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used merely for illustrative purposes. Losada’s results, along with the pretty butterfly graphs Brown had been shown in class, were essentially meaningless. It was a bit crazy in the late 1990s. Chaos theory had been popularized, and the social sciences copied fashionable buzzwords and buzzconcepts from chaos theory, and used them totally out of context. Maybe it was crazy in the 1920s, too? Einstein's theory of relativity had become popular, and sciences that had nothing to do with gravitation, copied the "everything is relative" slogan.