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Figure 5

From: An experimental study of segregation mechanisms

Figure 5

The segregation reached at the end of each game in the experiment compared to the predictions from a simulation model without satisficing and with random relocation. Segregation is measured as the average percent similar neighbors. The solid circles show the segregation reached by the groups in the experiment and the gray areas show the proportion of the simulation replications that predicted that particular segregation level for each group size. In the simulation, agents are situated on a two-dimensional 6 × 6 grid. At every time period, an agent is selected uniformly at random from the population and given the opportunity to relocate. If the agent does not have the maximum possible score of 100 in its current location, it randomly chooses one of the nearest four available locations in the up, down, left and right directions and relocates to it. Simulations were run for 100,000 time periods and replicated 1000 times.

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