Talk:Statistical Probabilities

Autism and Augments
It's interesting to note that the augments all display behaviors consistent with modern diagnosed mental conditions or pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). Lauren's behavior, in sexual acting-out and her delusion that men are in love with her, is consistent with mania, possibly schizophrenia, or some variant of impulse control disorder. The other three display various hallmarks of autism: Jack's lack of empathy or the ability to understand other's emotions (Asperger Syndrome); Patrick's age-inappropriate responses and sensitivity to noise; and as mentioned in the article, Sarina's inability to speak or write. It seems unlikely to me that this level of similarity is coincidence. Does anybody have access to anything from the author on what he/she was thinking about? SkepticalGal 17:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Just saw the episode
They did mention the possibility of an uprising on Cardascia. They made a similar prediction that Weynon made in the episodes, either favor the bold, or sacrifice of the angels, that Earth would be the center of Resistance against the dominion. They neglect predict Weynon's response to it. Weynon's solution to the problem was to eradicating Earth's population destroying any possibility of earth becoming a center of resistance. Oldag07 14:53, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Tim Ransom
I don't think the Tim Ransom linked on the page is the actor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.195.158.33 (talk) 22:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Anyone else notice that Tim Ransom completely stole the character from Brad Pitt's 12 Monkeys role? Pathetic..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:838E:AF20:F94C:A632:216E:4BD6 (talk) 17:45, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Asimov's 'Foundation'
Anyone who has read this novel will instantly recognize the obvious influence of it on this episode. Specifically, psychohistory. How would we go about incorporating that heritage into the wikipedia article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)

67.169.62.147 (talk) 02:16, 11 January 2014 (UTC)


 * - I came to this page after making the same connection and wanting to investigate. --75.132.23.239 (talk) 23:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Same answer as always, by finding reliable sources that make the connection. It turns out that Asimov did inspire the writers, and the reference book "Deep Space Nine Companion" confirms it. Unfortunately the book misheard or over-corrected "psychohistory" and ended up with "cycle history". Reviewer Keith DeCandido also mentioned that Asimov's psychohistory was an inspiration for the episode. -- 109.77.207.230 (talk) 03:52, 31 October 2021 (UTC)


 * To be more precise, the writers mingling/mangling the interplay of the terminology and plot devices, so due to their ADHD (colloquially psycho) nature they were so busy overthinking solutions that "cycle history" ties in with their iterative (cycle) analysis they had for their own expectation that the enemy must be "... thinking long term... months, years, decades...", with the writers license to riff on Asimov's "psychohistory" which encompassed this exact process to alter and predict long term future outcomes.   WurmWoode  T   04:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)