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Disasters and crises bring out the best in us
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Human Behaviour During Crises
Human beings may seem selfish and illogical during times of crisis, but there is evidence that disasters and crises bring out the best in us.
There are reports and sightings of people from d...
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Old Assumptions About Human Behaviour
Studying the natural disasters of the past, sociologists agree that while news reports lean towards the negative, a vast majority of people, good samaritans, doctors, nurses, government servants st...
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Bad Times Are Good
A crisis helps draw awareness towards our fellow human beings, with our starting to embrace dependency, community, and solidarity, something not visible in normal circumstances.
Though w...
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Handling pandemics
When faced with threats so dangerous as the current pandemic, individuals may react in two main ways: they become whether more selfish or more caring in regards to the people around them.
...People's behavior in times of disaster
The available research on the topic mostly shows us that, when faced with a disaster, people tend to be more caring and more concerned about the ones around them.
Different forms of selflessness are easily reachable by individuals during natural disasters.
Technology and solidarity
While technology may enable us today to stay connected with our friends, families as well as to keep working, it does not bring us the key to solidarity.
The issue emerges whenever there are long periods of time that require social distancing, as individuals are forced to stay away from their group of friends or families. In order to still remain socially active, one might want to consider becoming more involved in the local community's activities.
Byproducts of Crises
During war times, the common man is least prepared for dealing with the drastic change of circumstances, displacement, loss of life of the self and loved ones, along with injury, loss of property a...
Benefits Of A Crisis
During the peak of World War II, where it was expected that the citizens would go through hell, the opposite happened. People turned out to be more resilient, driven and motivated during the war.
The looming threat of being dead at any time turned out to be beneficial for the mental conditions and toughness for the individuals. Suicides lessened, and social unity and community bonding increased manifold.
At Home With Adversity
- We, as human beings are naturally adaptive to a disaster or crisis, and bad times are improving our morale and strengthening our community spirit.
- Groups of people collaborating, caring for and working with each other, hand in hand, are the ones who are most likely to live through any crisis.
- The necessary conditions that we need to flourish as individuals and as a species, ironically, emerge during bad times.
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Simulating a crisis
Modeling systems are used to provide a better understanding of a bad situation and how to possibly prevent it.
Groups of researchers, teams of engineers and companies are d...
Why we use models
- A model is just a series of calculations that abstractly represent some systems in the real world. We use models all the time.
- We may work out the routes we could take to get to work at a specific time of the day. We use past data to make predictions about what we can expect in the future in a given set of circumstances.
- As the volume of data and the number of variables increase, the computational task would increase.
- Powerful models aim to forecast inherently unpredictable events and make use of machine learning to look for patterns in the data that would otherwise be missed.
The accuracy of a model
You can never accurately predict what's going to happen. Some efforts come close.
For example, models looking at the weather can achieve more than 90% accuracy. But crises are about change, and a model working from historical data may miss a dramatic and new change.