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Social Epidemiology
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Neil & Malcolm Gladwell Explore What Shapes Our Society
StarTalk·Feb 25, 2025
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Social problems and human behaviors, such as crime and obesity, can be understood and tracked using the same mathematical principles applied to the spread of contagious diseases.
“it struck me when I read that article that this was the conceptual explanation that crime was a contagious phenomenon and it had just tipped in the way that epidemics often tip”
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