perverse effect
1Perverse effects of vaccination — occur when a vaccination program causes more harm than it cures. This can happen if too few are vaccinated, allowing the disease to spread, albeit more slowly than in an unvaccinated population. This raises the average age of infection, which in… …
2Perverse incentive — A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable effect, that is against the interest of the incentive makers. Perverse incentives by definition produce negative unintended consequences. It is a term first coined by… …
3Cobra effect — The cobra effect is where a solution for solving a problem could actually make it worse.[1][2] The term is used to illustrate the causes of wrong stimulation in economy and politics.[2] There is also a book with the same title by Horst Siebert… …
4Hawthorne effect — The Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they know they are being studied,[1][2] not in response to any… …
5CSI effect — Forensic science Physiological sciences …
6Butterfly effect — For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation). Point attractors in 2D phase space. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result …
7Osborne effect — The Osborne effect is a term referring to the unintended consequence of the announcement of a future product ahead of its availability and its impact upon the sales of the current product. Pre announcement is done for several reasons: to reassure …
8Wal-Mart effect — n. The economic effects attributable to the Wal Mart retail chain, including local effects such as forcing smaller competitors out of business and driving down wages, and broader effects such as helping to keep inflation low and productivity high …
9Unintended consequence — Unintended consequences are outcomes that are not (or not limited to) what the actor intended in a particular situation. The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the action. For… …
10drugs — by Richard G. Smith According to Baudrillard, a perverse logic (SC, 97) drives consumer societies. A logic that fuels, not just the use and abuse of drugs, but also the growth of other phenomena: terrorism, violence, depression, fascism and… …
