Decreasing both the stand and the sit thresholds results in a higher peak number standing. Two possible extensions of the model occur to us. The second extension is to use a normal distribution for the random variable instead of the uniform distribution used in order to allow for extreme preferences. This, or a similar model could be used to model many peer-pressure behaviors. These include fads, decisions to watch movies or to purchase a particular product, the study of corruption in societies and organizations and frequency behaviors such as lecture attendance.
Time is measured on the horizontal axis.
As we can see, the audience behavior simulated in the first graph closely resembles the behavior of real audiences. All graphs show single runs of the simulations exception made for the last one which shows the average over ten simulations.