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Dysfunction

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A dysfunction is an effect of a social pattern that is adverse for the system or for some group within it.

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A hospital's readmission ranking is functional for administrators reporting the metric, but wards discharge patients early to dodge it — dysfunctional for those patients.

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The same arrangement can be functional and dysfunctional at once, for different groups.

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