The Social Experiment

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What happens when you put a bunch of men together with some alcohol? They talk shop, they discuss cars, and they flash their business cards around. They go back home feeling the other is better off and that they need to up their game.

What happens when you put a bunch of women together with some alcohol? They chatter on food, they connect on similar life events and they check out each other. Then they go back home feeling the other is better off and that they need to up their game.

Now what if you put this same bunch of Men & Women together with some alcohol, throw in a bit of bowling or dancing or sailing?

You would imagine that this would be a whole new kind of environment with lots of exciting, fun, intense conversation. There would be some sort of electric atmosphere where these men & women would rise above the mundane & put their best foot forward. That everyone goes back home confident in the knowledge that there is someone who has had a similar experience or anecdote to narrate.

You can’t be further from the truth.

When you have a bunch of well-educated, financially independent and well-traveled, smartly attired, coiffed, pedicured, manicured and well-heeled group of people the nucleus doesn’t remain at a stationary point. It goes through a rapid fission & breaks up the group into many small ones. Most of the groups resemble either of the two main groups. The first group is the one which talks shop, discusses cars & flashes their business cards around while the other group chatter on food, connect on life events & check each other out.

Why does this happen? Is it that the former group is too into themselves or that the later too intimidating? Is it because there is a no connect, no common point between these two groups? What will happen if you introduce a nucleus into the smaller groups? Will the protons & electrons get drawn to the nucleus? Will the protons & electrons cross each other’s path in this process?

Well, that is for part 2 of the experiment. Watch for this space!