 An illustration of average outcomes for different threshold values appears as  figure 2.  What is represented here is not change over time but rather the final opinion positions given different threshold values. As the threshold value climbs from 0 to roughly 0.20, there is an increasing number of results with concentrations of agents at the outer edges of the distribution, which themselves are moving inward. Between 0.22 and 0.26 there is a quick transition from results with two final groups to results with a single final group. For values still higher, the two sides are sufficiently within reach that they coalesce on a central consensus, although the exact location of that final monolithic group changes from run to run creating the fat central spike shown. Hegselmann and Krause describe the progression of outcomes with an increasing threshold as going through three phases: 