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I personally called this effect 'Bandwagon Threshold Theory' (as in, once a critical mass jumps on the bandwagon, everyone else follows). Didn't know about 'Hun
by borplk 14y ago
I personally called this effect 'Bandwagon Threshold Theory' (as in, once a critical mass jumps on the bandwagon, everyone else follows). Didn't know about 'Hundredth monkey effect' until today.
- thejteam 14y agoThe "Hundreth Monkey" makes an even stronger claim. It claims that after a threshold is reached then everybody will have a certain knowledge or behavior, even if they have NEVER heard of it before. Supposedly, once a critical mass of monkeys on an island learned to wash sweet potatoes then monkeys on a neighboring island who had no contact with the first set started washing their sweet potatoes. Essentially, they all jumped on the bandwagon without knowing the bandwagon was even there. It is, of course, hogwash. Never been reproduced to my knowledge. It is often used by hippy sorts to explain how they are going to change the world's behavior.
- d--b 14y agoThat's unrelated, read the wikipedia article more closely... It states that after a certain number of monkeys learnt the skill, monkeys from _other_ islands immediately picked up. This means that the theorists thought that cognitive knowledge could travel by other means that just teach/learn relationship.
- derleth 14y ago> It states that after a certain number of monkeys learnt the skill, monkeys from _other_ islands immediately picked up. It also states that this idea was discredited. This part never happened.