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AIDS and Ants
trial 1: everyone has AIDs at 590 weeks
trial 2: 98.33% at 10,000 + weeks and no change
trial 3: 100 % infected wtihin 500 weeks
trial 4: 99% infected within 500 plus weeks
Initially, these trials implied that there is a part of the population which is naturally resistant to AIDS. Then we read that average coupling is about how often someone chooses to not have sex, not the percentage chance of them having sex.
Then, we decided to increase the sample size of the population to the max, which was 496 people. We measured similar results as compared to teh first population size.
99.8 percent infected within 10000 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
99.8% infected within 5000 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
100% infected within 500 weeks
Then we decided to reduce the average coupling but maintain the population size. When coupling was reduced to 3, in trials, results topped off at 94.3%. When coupling was reduced to 2, in trials, results topped off at 64.92%
We concluded that the model showed that the lower the percentage of coupling rate, the more people who chose not to have sex, therefore the less people got AIDS. We don't think that this computer model is random, since people are active in who they decide when to have sex and when not to.