E-mail use model appears to follow "Clash of Civilizations" prediction
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Researchers at Stanford University have built a model based on the frequency of e-mail interactions between groups of users of Yahoo! e-mail throughout the world. In studying their results, they have found, as they report in their paper they've uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, it appears to adhere to societal boundaries as described by Samuel Huntington's 1992 book "The Clash of Civilizations."