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This sounds like one of those phenomenons that suffers when too many people find out about it. The more it's written about, tested, and the more people in the
by danvideo 15y ago
This sounds like one of those phenomenons that suffers when too many people find out about it.
The more it's written about, tested, and the more people in the disgruntled minority (or majority) with what appears to be the statistics on a given Monday --- the less accurate this'll likely be on Tuesday... rest of the time.
- libria 15y agoReminds me of Asimov's "psychohistory". He conceived of a science capable predicting future events with probabilities but two of its foundational principles are that 1) the population sample is sufficiently large 2) the population is unaware that they are being observed or unaware of the variables/mechanisms used to predict their future. Part of what made his writing interesting was that this science was very believable.