Day: March 22, 2010

I have seen this effect first hand my whole life.  Some examples: I tried to convince my parents that homework was stupid.  The more I tried to convince, the most entrenched they became. I tried to get a girl to love me.  The more I loved her, the less she loved me.  My cousin treated…

From Wikipedia: “Any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes” The key part of this is that there are MORE outcomes than just the one that is the goal.  They might be unfortunate, sometimes they are actually very beneficial.  This…