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'Shallow' sports and 'deep' social hierarchies: Not all pecking orders are created equally

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University of Michigan researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner of competitions, including sports, games and social hierarchies in both humans and animals.

This dimension, which they call "depth of competition," can be integrated into a variety of important and lucrative fields. It could, for instance, help project winners of match-ups in sports, forecast consumer preferences, rank universities and evaluate hiring practices.

But it also provides a single framework to compare and glean insights from a wide spectrum of competitive interactions. As long as the researchers have data, be it from board games or baboon fights, their model can calculate the depth of any competition with a winner and loser.

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