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arxiv: 1404.6993 · v1 · pith:RYUR7VIInew · submitted 2014-04-28 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech· cs.SI· q-bio.PE

The first shall be last: selection-driven minority becomes majority

classification ⚛️ physics.soc-ph cond-mat.stat-mechcs.SIq-bio.PE
keywords consensusquestionssometheydemonstrationsmanymeetingsmillion
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Street demonstrations occur across the world. In Rio de Janeiro, June/July 2013, they reach beyond one million people. A wrathful reader of \textit{O Globo}, leading newspaper in the same city, published a letter \cite{OGlobo} where many social questions are stated and answered Yes or No. These million people of street demonstrations share opinion consensus about a similar set of social issues. But they did not reach this consensus within such a huge numbered meetings. Earlier, they have met in diverse small groups where some of them could be convinced to change mind by other few fellows. Suddenly, a macroscopic consensus emerges. Many other big manifestations are widespread all over the world in recent times, and are supposed to remain in the future. The interesting questions are: 1) How a binary-option opinion distributed among some population evolves in time, through local changes occurred within small-group meetings? and 2) Is there some natural selection rule acting upon? Here, we address these questions through an agent-based model.

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