I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping social behaviour

Authors Mark Earls and Alex Bentley explore how ideas, behaviour and culture spread through the simple means of doing what others do.

Listen to the audio file of the full event: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/ill-have-what-shes-ha...

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[notworthwile]

Whens the next Animate going to be made?

[skeppsbrogatan]

An interesting video, though long winded. It does not give that much information considering it's 16 minutes long

[Henrickunit]

The idea that we have to work it out for ourselves. We don't. That's one of the great things about being (a zombie). It's that you have people's minds around you, people's minds and bodies around you.

If you ask (zombies) if they are socially influenced or whether they act independently, they are more likely to tell you in a survey sense that they act independently.

[ahantu]

@tarohoa You have a good point. Everything that humans do is about their self-interest. The unfortunate thing is it's the majority dislike those who want to be different(nonsocialble, or independent) and will use means to force them to become the majority.

[MultiJayver]

q video tan estupido... falta de respeto.. para que suben estas porquerias qa la red

[2fromcenter]

Brilliant Mark as always. Thanks for keeping us thinking.

[seriousbees]

I don't think the graph section is as informative as the guy would like. Sure there are fads which propagate through society and can be modeled with probability distributions in large number statistics, but that doesn't give much insight. Understanding the way these things propagate on an individual level would be more interesting.

[JeanKM1]

"I agree with what he/they just said." (Paraphrased from last night's CNN GOP debate.)

[rbl777]

this is perfect

[hrolvnir]

Video was a little sparse, but 14:30 - 15:15 was quite apt.

[migsmog]

@skeppsbrogatan I couldn't agree more. Interesting but could've used more substance