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March 07 2010
“— A Simple Model of Increasing AccessThe sort of thing boosterism doesn't account for: increased Balkanization of individuals.
[I]ncreasing access now has the sole effect of giving agents more potential partners to select from. Since agents prefer similar partners, increasing access allows them to find more and more partners of the same type to form connections to. Thus, the number of affiliations per agent will decrease and Balkanization increases. For our particular society, with universal access, all agents connect only to those of the same type, so the Index of Balkanized Affiliation reaches a maximum of one."”
