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Women's visibility in academic seminars: women ask fewer questions than men
Alecia Carter, Alyssa Croft, Dieter Lukas +1
The attrition of women in academic careers is a major concern, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics subjects. One factor that can contribute to the att…
Evolutionary dynamics of the cryptocurrency market
Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Anne Kandler +2
The cryptocurrency market surpassed the barrier of $100 billion market capitalization in June 2017, after months of steady growth. Despite its increasing relevance in the financia…
The Natural Selection of Bad Science
Paul E. Smaldino, Richard McElreath
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from someth…
Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns
Andrea Baronchelli, Tao Gong, Andrea Puglisi +1
The empirical evidence that human color categorization exhibits some universal patterns beyond superficial discrepancies across different cultures is a major breakthrough in cognit…
Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation
Soeren Wichmann, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze +2
Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the…
A computer simulation of language families
Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer, Soeren Wichmann +1
This paper presents Monte Carlo simulations of language populations and the development of language families, showing how a simple model can lead to distributions similar to the on…