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Authoritarianism vs. democracy: Simulating responses to disease outbreaks
A. E. Biondo, G. Brosio, A. Pluchino +1
Disease outbreaks force the governments to rapid decisions to deal with. However, the rapid stream of decision-making could be costly in terms of the democratic representativeness.…
A Novel Methodology for Epidemic Risk Assessment of COVID-19 outbreak
A. Pluchino, A. E. Biondo, N. Giuffrida +6
We propose a novel data-driven framework for assessing the a-priori epidemic risk of a geographical area and for identifying high-risk areas within a country. Our risk index is eva…
Inequalities, chance and success in sport competitions: simulations vs empirical data
Pawel Sobkowicz, Robert H Frank, Alessio E Biondo +2
We present a new way of estimation of the role of chance in achieving success, by comparing the empirical data from 100-meter dash competitions (one of the sports disciplines with…
On the origins of extreme wealth inequality in the Talent vs Luck Model
Damien Challet, Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo +1
While wealth distribution in the world is highly skewed and heavy-tailed, human talent - as the majority of individual features - is normally distributed. In a recent computational…
Exploring the Role of Interdisciplinarity in Physics: Success, Talent and Luck
Alessandro Pluchino, Giulio Burgio, Andrea Rapisarda +4
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is qualitative…
Exploring the role of talent and luck in getting success
Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio. E. Biondo, Andrea Rapisarda
We review recent numerical results on the role of talent and luck in getting success by means of a schematic agent-based model. In general the role of luck is found to be very rele…