unintended consequences
outcomes that are not the ones intended or foreseen by a purposeful action, resulting from a variety of reasons, including the world's inherent complexity as well as cognitive or emotional biases
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unintended consequences
Summary
unintended consequences ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- unintended consequences's image is recorded as Rabbit-erosion.jpg[2].
- unintended consequences's GND ID is recorded as 4132278-2[3].
- unintended consequences's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 133343386[4].
- unintended consequences's IdRef ID is recorded as 03575513X[5].
- unintended consequences's subclass of is recorded as result[6].
- unintended consequences's subclass of is recorded as risk[7].
- unintended consequences's subclass of is recorded as effect[8].
- unintended consequences's subclass of is recorded as sociological concept[9].
- unintended consequences's opposite of is recorded as serendipity[10].
- unintended consequences's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p3lk[11].
- unintended consequences's has cause is recorded as intentional human activity[12].
- unintended consequences's facet of is recorded as goal[13].
- unintended consequences's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[14].
- unintended consequences's topic has template is recorded as Template:Unintended consequences[15].
- unintended consequences's BBC Things ID is recorded as 824f6bbf-8dd8-41f8-81e7-6fd972cbf6a5[16].
- unintended consequences's different from is recorded as Streisand effect[17].
- unintended consequences's different from is recorded as Raines law[18].
- unintended consequences's different from is recorded as potato[19].
- unintended consequences's different from is recorded as constitutive effect[20].
- unintended consequences's Quora topic ID is recorded as Unintended-Consequences-6[21].
- unintended consequences's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776889888[22].
- unintended consequences's Econlib entry ID is recorded as UnintendedConsequences[23].
- unintended consequences's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776889888[24].
Why It Matters
unintended consequences ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]