Fig. 3.

The effects of responsiveness (R) as a function of tolerance (T). Average polarization of the population’s ideological positions after 1,000,000 steps, averaged over 20 iterations for each $\left(T,R\right)$ pair. $T$ and $R$ are both varied over the range $0.05,0.10,\dots ,1.0$. There is a phase change from extreme polarization (yellow) with low $T$ to convergence (dark blue) with high $T$. The phase change is largely independent of $R$. A and B indicate the $T=0.25$ and $T=0.35$ cases shown in Fig. 2 on the boundary of the phase change.