GSB Dating Scene

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WHAT IS IT?

This model tries to simulate inter-class relationships at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. I've attempted to capture the demographics of the class of 2010 in the initial slider settings.

HOW IT WORKS

Each night is compromised of 20 ticks. In a given night, the students wander, and if they run into a yellow "bar" they will have a drink (unless the student is a non-drinker). Once a student gets drunk, he/she has the opportunity to hook-up with a nearby non-married, non-coupled student. If the pair hooks-up, and neither member has drank too much or had too many previous hookups, they will form a relationship.

Once the night is over, the number of drinks that the student has had resets to 0.

In terms of watching the colors:

red= married

blue = single male

pink = single female

yellow = drinking

orange = hooking up

white = dating

HOW TO USE IT

The user can change the following perameters:

- initial GSB students

- percentage women in the class

- percentage married

- percentage non-drinkers

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globals [
  prob-relationship       ;; After a hookup, chance of relationsihp
  prob-hookup             ;; Depends on number of drinks
  drunk-length            ;; After how many ticks does this number reset
  students
  bar1
  bar2
  bar3
]

turtles-own [
  male?              ;; sex
  drinks?             ;; does the student drink
  num-drinks          ;; number of drinks in this period
  num-hookups         ;; number of hook-ups thus far
  married?            ;; married
  coupled?           ;; In a relationship
  couple-length      ;; How long the person has been in a couple.
  commitment         ;; How long the person will stay in a couple-relationship.
  partner            ;; The person that is our current partner in a couple.
]

;;;
;;; SETUP PROCEDURES
;;;

to setup
  ca
  setup-globals
  setup-people
  setup-bar
  setup-plot
  update-plot
  ;;update-plot
end 

to setup-globals
  reset-ticks
  set prob-relationship 50    ;; if you have unprotected sex with an infected partner,
  set prob-hookup 50                           ;; you have a 50% chance of being infected
  set drunk-length 5    ;; symptoms show up 200 weeks after infection
 ;; set women percentage-women
end 

to setup-people
  crt gsb-students
    [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor
      set shape "person"
      ifelse random 100 < percentage-women 
      [set male? false]
      [set male? true]
       ifelse random 100 < percentage-married
      [set married? true]
      [set married? false]  
      set coupled? false
      set partner nobody
      ifelse random 100 < non-drinkers
      [set drinks? false]
      [set drinks? true]
      assign-color 
    ]
end 

to assign-color  ;; turtle procedure
  ifelse married?
    [ set color red]
    [ ifelse male?
      [ set color blue ]
      [ set color pink ]
    if coupled? [set color white] ]
end 

to setup-bar
  ask patches [
    if random 100 < 5 [ set pcolor yellow]
  ]
end 

to go ;; forever button 
wander
drink
hook-up
update-plot
tick
if ticks >= 20 [
  ask turtles[
    set num-drinks 0
    assign-color
    ]
  reset-ticks
    ]
end 

to wander;; turtle procedure 
ask turtles [rt random 360 
forward 1
]
end 

to drink ;; turtle procedure 
ask turtles [
    if pcolor = yellow [
      if drinks? = true[
      set color yellow
      set num-drinks (num-drinks + 1)
    ]
    ]]
end 

to hook-up
  ask turtles [
      if color = yellow [
      if male? [
      let potential-partner one-of (turtles-at -1 0)
                          with [not married? and not coupled? and not male?]
                          if potential-partner != nobody [
                            set partner potential-partner
        
        ask partner [ set color orange ]
        set color orange
        set num-hookups (num-hookups + 1)
         ifelse (num-drinks <= 2 and num-hookups < 2 and random 100 < 50) [date] [ifelse male?
      [ set color blue ]
      [ set color pink ]]
         ]]]]                  
end 

to date
  
     set coupled? true
        ask partner [ set coupled? true ]
        set color white
     ask partner [set color white]
end 

to setup-plot
  set-current-plot "Relationship Status"
  set-plot-y-range 0 (gsb-students + 10)
end 

to update-plot
  set-current-plot "Relationship Status"
  set-current-plot-pen "Married"
  plot count turtles with [married?]
  set-current-plot-pen "In a Relationship"
  plot count turtles with [coupled?]
  set-current-plot-pen "Hooking up"
  plot count turtles with [num-hookups > 0]
  set-current-plot-pen "Single"
  plot count turtles with [not married? and num-hookups = 0]
end 

to-report %num-hookups
    report (sum num-hookups / count turtles)
end 
                          

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