The Rules of Contagion
then get each of their contacts to name five more contacts. In total, they would have had to track the behaviour of 31,000 peopl ...
you don’t list me. This suggests I am more influenced by you than you are by me. However, if in reality we’re actually both infl ...
governments and other organisations want to address health issues that are contagious, they’ll need to know more about the actua ...
Even so, the sort of network structure that amplifies disease transmission won’t always have the same effect on social contagion ...
a room as it slowly filled with fake smoke.[49] If they were alone, they would generally respond; if they were with a group of s ...
could indeed reveal patterns of contagion. However, some were more likely to catch the running bug than others. Over a five-year ...
century statistician Thomas Bayes, the idea is to treat knowledge as a belief that we have a certain level of confidence in. For ...
was to carry out a randomised controlled trial. After recruiting voters to participate in a series of surveys, LaCour would rand ...
wrote statistician Andrew Gelman after the paper was retracted. Gelman pointed out that this seems to happen a lot in psychologi ...
information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological commitments,’ they concluded. Even in their or ...
A lot rides on how we structure and present our arguments. In 2013, the UK legalised same-sex marriage. John Randall, then a Con ...
Even if you manage to identify an effective argument to support your position, there are things you can do to improve your chanc ...
transgender adverts from recent political campaigns. The ads initially swung opinions back against transgender people, but this ...
4 Something in the air ‘W with real violence.’ After a decade spent working on disease epidemics in Central and East Africa, ...
leafy Hampstead. But she still preferred the water from the pump in town. She thought it tasted better. One August day in 1854, ...
ale and imported water, who didn’t get sick. Then there was Susannah Eley and her niece, who had their water shipped from Soho t ...
Snow’s updated cholera map of Soho Credit: John Snow Archive & Research Companion. The mark on the right-hand side is a tear ...
most at risk if the pump were to blame. Just as his theory suggested, this was also where most cases were appearing. Snow would ...
another one soon after: for example, it might not take long for one gang to retaliate against another. On other occasions it may ...
number of factors – in our backgrounds, in our lifestyles, in our social interactions – that can increase the risk of an outbrea ...
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