In both 1987 and 1998, practical action involving models that incorporated the assumption that randomness is "mild" may thus have helped to generate "wild" randomness. The adoption by the Options Clearing Corporation of Mandelbrot's wildly random infinite-variance Levy distributions can also be seen as counterperformative, although in this case deliberately so. By assuming wild randomness, the Options Clearing Corporation hopes to keep randomness mild.

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 1169