re: #88 sizzzzlerz

Author Isaac Asimov used this concept in his Foundation series, written back in the early ’50s. He called it “psychohistory” invented by psychohistorian Harry Selden. In the book, psychohistory’s fundamental premise is that it is impossible to predict future actions taken by individual humans but, grouped in large numbers, their actions can be predicted and, as a result, directed.

Until a “nobody could have predicted this” couple of outliers (the Mule; and the one girl who liked him well enough as-is that he didn’t alter her emotions) came along and fucked up all Harry’s expectations.