The application of statistical methods of continuous thermodynamics enables not only the calculation of equilibrium composition but also provides facilities for the demonstration of very interesting and striking regularities in behavior.
Over the past few years as a graduate student and a researcher at MIT, I have developed extensive research experience, including analyzing behavioral data from multiple sources to uncover regularities in behaviors and preferences and applying a wide variety of computational and statistical tools to elucidate insights.
Is there some kind of regularity in human behavior or culture that supersedes national variations?
According to David Lewis's influential account of convention, for instance, a convention is a regularity in the behavior of a community which is arbitrary but perpetuates itself because it serves "some sort of common purpose.
Individuals who are intentional in their actions display regularity in their behavior.
What social physics does is add knowledge about statistical regularities in human behavior to improve detection and prediction of trends and similar crowd behaviors.
However, these results also suggest important regularities in bargaining behavior.
Because of regularities in human behavior, patterns in data exhaust can be used to 'fingerprint' an individual – enabling potential reidentification even in the absence of explicit identifiers or quasi-identifiers.
He introduced the notion of a collective because he believed that the regularities in the behavior of certain actual sequences of outcomes are best explained by the hypothesis that those sequences are initial segments of collectives.
Experimental contexts, in which scientists elicit regularities in the behavior of the objects of study by manipulating them under controlled conditions, are often taken to generate epistemically privileged evidence about the objects of study.
Moreover, it does of course not follow from a relation's being 'arbitrary', contingent, or even 'made by us', that it is conventional in any interesting sense.[26] There are innumerable regularities in our behavior (such as moving down hallways by putting one foot in front of the other) that are neither necessities of any sort, nor due to convention.
