The Control Group

The Amish exception: a living control group that rejected the decoherence drivers and held its coherence steady while America's fell.

We traced the decline from chi = 0.85 in 1900 to chi = 0.27 today. The Amish control case asks the question that matters: was it inevitable?

Two populations. Same country. Same century. Same legal rights. Same access to modern medicine, modern law, modern infrastructure.

Between 1960 and 2025, every measurable indicator of American social coherence declined: family structure collapsed, institutional trust evaporated,...

The earlier articles in this sub-series established why the Amish are the control group: the Coherence Factory in Holmes County (09a), the head-to-head...

The Amish are not anti-technology. That's the first thing most people get wrong.

This report presents a comprehensive structural analysis of the Old Order Amish Ordnung, validating the hypothesis that this unwritten code functions...

Most Americans look at the Amish and see nostalgia. A people frozen in 1850, opting out of modern life because they cannot or will not keep up.

The Korea experiment: a natural test of the coherence model, comparing divergent moral and institutional trajectories from a shared starting point.