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are also more stable, more consistent about the increases. Overall, we expected to see a systematic increase in number of eaters created as one moved from lower to higher S conditions (i.e. As allowable distance of effect of an eater on a noneater is liberalized, one expects a greater number of noneaters to be impacted). The pattern of increase observed was mixed – ranging across increase, slight increase, flat to slight reversal. Table 2. Results of current study. Beta as parameter A curious succession, seen earlier in the older study, seems to have been largely mitigated. As one moves from the lowest “starting proportion of eaters” (E) to the higher proportion immediately greater, there is increase in new eaters spawned (visible in the last column of each table) – and that comes as little surprise. As one moves from the middle “starting proportion” to the highest, however, in the earlier set of results, instead of an increase once again in eaters created, there is decrease. In the current iteration, the peculiarity is visible only in the first triplet. We plan further exploration in order to be able to articulate a coherent explanation. Conclusion We explored a case of pedestrian behavior in the city street. We looked particularly at the case of pedestrians who might eat while walking. We enquired with regards to the effect of social facilitation on noneaters. Our model results suggested that, overall, the possibility exists. For modelling, we compared means of theoretical factors against regression betas. Both systems showed an overall increase in eater count, but the latter showed more modest gains. In addition to the overall expectation of increase, we reported two critical observations. In the first, low to high S conditions were expected to yield higher new eater counts along that S condition progression, but current observations are mixed. In the second case, under the E conditions, we expected a higher beginning proportion of eaters to yield higher new eater counts. This happened as expected in transition from the first to second levels of E, but there 203