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physics.soc-ph2017★ 131 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 204 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 932 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2009★ 178 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2008

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…

physics.soc-ph2007★ 5 cited

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…