Disorder plus disorder equals more disorder?
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 04:06
in Psychology & Sociology
It turns out that in certain situations, combining messes can actually reduce the disorder of the whole; an international team of researchers has identified a set of conditions in which adding disorder to a system makes it more orderly. This behavior is known as antifragility, a concept introduced recently to describe similar phenomena in statistics, economics and social science.