>>12545476ecology. it was mentioned once to me, and i cannot for the life of me figure out what it's called because it's complicated to google. basically it's the concept of what if you have a certain population or model/process like a population where it happens regularly and it seem to occur in this regular pattern but the variance is actually regular due to some sort of metacycle? or what if you have a seemingly random population cycle that's actually on a patterned sequence so large that you're not able to understand the variance?
in ecology it happens a lot where there are invisible relationships or unexpected downstream effects. this is probably why this concept has come up because we've been so limited and unaware of our biases throughout history (see: most biocontrol being a disaster) that we try to consider them now.
