Talk:Synergy
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I have dited this page to remove the link to a deleted article, however I don't know if any of the other edits by the same user are valid for this topic or not. Could these be checked please? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:48, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
anyone know what the antonym for synergy is (or if one exists at all)? ie. two things having less effect combined than if they were employed seprately.
- Cancellation? Amanita June 30, 2005 11:24 (UTC)
[edit] Usage of Synergy
"Person A alone is too short to reach an apple on a tree and person B is too short as well. Once person B sits on the shoulders of person A, they are more than tall enough to reach the apple. In this example, the synergy would be one apple."
This sounds wrong to me so I changed it, but perhaps this page could use a usage of synergy section. I find that buzzwords like this are hard to use properly since their meanings are often difficult to pin down. --Daev 01:28, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
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- Ah! But that's the whole point of a buzzword! :) Nuwewsco 13:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Synergy's Antonyms
A google search shows that there seems to be enough interest in the antonym of "synergy" that a subheading here might be justified. Absent any objections, I'll make one up once I get a few minutes.
By the way, if anyone sees this in the interim, the frontrunners seem to be "antergy" then "dysergy." --electric counterpoint 12:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Synergy electronic music
In the 70's-80's there was an electronic group called "Synergy" with Larry Fast
[edit] Quantity and Quality
Sources? This section seems like original research... Amcfreely 19:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Statistical sloppiness
- "Pest synergy, for example, would occur in a biological host organism population, where the introduction of parasite A may cause 10% fatalities of the individuals, and parasite B may also cause 10% loss. When both parasites are present, the losses are observed to be significantly greater than the expected 20%, and it is said that the parasites in combination have a synergistic effect."
This is only accurate if the effect of the two parasites are assumed to be purely additive in a rather unrealistic way. If the effects of the two parasites were truly independent, then the expected fatality rate would be 1 - (0.9 * 0.9) = 19%, not 20%. NTK 04:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
