You call THESE people idiots? The worst urban fires in the recent history were caused by applied mathematicians.
In the mid-1970s RAND corporation was hired by the NYFD to develop a game theoretical model aiming to save money by recommending what fire departments to close. The result was 1/4 of the South Bronx burning down in a series of firestorms. Check http://www.thebravest.com/FDNYNewsArchive/10/05/16a.htm
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2010-10-10 03:45 am (UTC)In the mid-1970s RAND corporation was hired by the NYFD to develop a game theoretical model aiming to save money by recommending what fire departments to close. The result was 1/4 of the South Bronx burning down in a series of firestorms. Check http://www.thebravest.com/FDNYNewsArchive/10/05/16a.htm