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7/7/2025, 11:56:46 AM
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This is probably an anecdotal understanding of the "lazy ant" effect.
Entomologists found out maybe 30 or 40 years ago that most of the ants, as much as 40% at a time, are doing the absolute minimum amount of work - with a low 3-10% doing basically fucking nothing. Lazy ants. Meanwhile, the other portion was made up of working ants and some very hard working ants. The interesting aspect of the "lazy ant" effect wasn't the ratio, but the fact that if you began to remove the lazy ants: the hard working ants would become lazy ants, and the lazy ants (in their new container) would become harder working - the ratio in any given group would remain constant and proportionate to the other ants.
I can't find the study, but Japanese CEO and businessmen in the 90's fucked around with this effect in human working conditions and found more or less the exact same phenomena play out in people. If you remove the hardest working people in a group, the laziest people will work harder, but if you remove the laziest people in a group the hardest working will work less. Even in humans, this ratio subconsciously maintains itself.
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This is probably an anecdotal understanding of the "lazy ant" effect.
Entomologists found out maybe 30 or 40 years ago that most of the ants, as much as 40% at a time, are doing the absolute minimum amount of work - with a low 3-10% doing basically fucking nothing. Lazy ants. Meanwhile, the other portion was made up of working ants and some very hard working ants. The interesting aspect of the "lazy ant" effect wasn't the ratio, but the fact that if you began to remove the lazy ants: the hard working ants would become lazy ants, and the lazy ants (in their new container) would become harder working - the ratio in any given group would remain constant and proportionate to the other ants.
I can't find the study, but Japanese CEO and businessmen in the 90's fucked around with this effect in human working conditions and found more or less the exact same phenomena play out in people. If you remove the hardest working people in a group, the laziest people will work harder, but if you remove the laziest people in a group the hardest working will work less. Even in humans, this ratio subconsciously maintains itself.
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