Clapping process

Well, yesterday i was attending our CMD bid adieu function. It was a massive gathering of about 500 people. Just a matter of my hobby, i started observing the clapping phenomenon to understand the people's behavior.   Clapping takes place when most of us agree or appreciate the speaker's part of speech. Clapping is a phenomenon that lasts for minimum of 5 secs to longer depending upon the audience emotions and feeling towards the things that are being said. The clapping starts with a solitary clap at some corner which u can clearly hear before the clapping starts. The solitary clap will be followed by claps by some groups in the audience . It then followed by the real clap when most of the people in the gathering starts clapping. So from the time of the solitary clap to the real clap, there is series of activities that can happen to form a more meaningful audience clapping within few seconds. A very normal observer has a different way to assess whether he should clap or not. He may think the point spoken by the speaker is valid and require appreciation but does not initiate the clap. He may not be of the same group as the clapping group that starts clapping after that solitary clap. He may only clap if he agrees with the point, do not  take initiative of clapping first, and only his group claps.

I can very well co-relate the clapping process to sudden rise or sudden fall in stock markets. So next time when there is a stock market rise or fall, just keep the clapping process in mind.