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I have beanershowever I don't know if any of the other edits by the same user are valid for this topic or not. Could these be checked please? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:48, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

anyone know what the antonym for synergy is (or if one exists at all)? ie. two things having less effect combined than if they were employed seprately.

Cancellation? Amanita June 30, 2005 11:24 (UTC)

[edit] Usage of Synergy

"Person A alone is too short to reach an apple on a tree and person B is too short as well. Once person B sits on the shoulders of person A, they are more than tall enough to reach the apple. In this example, the synergy would be one apple."

This sounds wrong to me so I changed it, but perhaps this page could use a usage of synergy section. I find that buzzwords like this are hard to use properly since their meanings are often difficult to pin down. --Daev 01:28, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah! But that's the whole point of a buzzword! :) Nuwewsco 13:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Synergy's Antonyms

A google search shows that there seems to be enough interest in the antonym of "synergy" that a subheading here might be justified. Absent any objections, I'll make one up once I get a few minutes.

By the way, if anyone sees this in the interim, the frontrunners seem to be "antergy" then "dysergy." --electric counterpoint 12:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Synergy electronic music

In the 70's-80's there was an electronic group called "Synergy" with Larry Fast

Looks like that's already covered in Synergy (disambiguation) dougmc 16:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quantity and Quality

Sources? This section seems like original research... Amcfreely 19:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statistical sloppiness

"Pest synergy, for example, would occur in a biological host organism population, where the introduction of parasite A may cause 10% fatalities of the individuals, and parasite B may also cause 10% loss. When both parasites are present, the losses are observed to be significantly greater than the expected 20%, and it is said that the parasites in combination have a synergistic effect."

This is only accurate if the effect of the two parasites are assumed to be purely additive in a rather unrealistic way. If the effects of the two parasites were truly independent, then the expected fatality rate would be 1 - (0.9 * 0.9) = 19%, not 20%. NTK 04:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] corporate synergies - very brief, not detailed enough

this needs some work; more detail is needed; the topic is worthy of a page in itself.--ToyotaPanasonic 11:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Synergy on Wikipedia

Should there be a reference to Wikipedia itself as a synergistic effort to share information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.54.213.68 (talk) 02:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

Before you do that you should probably read the policy WP:ASR. If not a reference directly to Wikipedia it could be a ref to the type of work that can be done in communities on the net. Rettetast 09:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bosshogs?

`Computers and bosshogs' ... does the term `bosshogs' here have some special significance that I'm not aware of? It seems like it's just being used as a replacement for `humans'. If there is some special significance, it probably should be mentioned here. dougmc 16:26, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

BossHogs --- removed, suprised this is a discussion item. Bosshog refers to a character on the Dukes of Hazzard TV Show, then later the Movie. And is not relevant to the article or the paragraph it titled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.236.26.129 (talk) 20:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It don't make sense

"Often (but not always, see Toxicologic synergy, below) the prediction is the sum of the effects each is able to create independently." -- Okay this took me about 5-10 seconds to understand because it's missing the word "that", see the following:
"Often (but not always, see Toxicologic synergy, below) the prediction is the sum of the effects that each is able to create independently."
I've changed this in the article. If this is a problem, or if this renders it less accurate, you can revert. Thanks Rfwoolf (talk) 11:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Editing needed by expert in Toxicologic part of article

Their is a sentence at the end of the first paragraph that should be somewhere else or something, I'm not sure.