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The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models' predictions
Dino Carpentras, Michael Quayle
Agent-based models (ABMs) often rely on psychometric constructs such as 'opinions', 'stubbornness', 'happiness', etc. The measurement process for these constructs is quite differen…
Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits
Melody Sepahpour-Fard, Michael Quayle, Maria Schuld +1
Human beings adapt their language to the audience they interact with. To study the impact of audience and gender in a natural setting, we choose a domain where gender plays a parti…
How Do Mothers and Fathers Talk About Parenting to Different Audiences?: Stereotypes and Audience Effects: An Analysis of r/Daddit, r/Mommit, and r/Parenting Using Topic Modelling
Melody Sepahpour-Fard, Michael Quayle
While major strides have been made towards gender equality in public life, serious inequality remains in the domestic sphere, especially around parenting. The present study analyse…
The sensitivity of the Deffuant model to measurement error
Dino Carpentras, Michael Quayle
Opinion dynamics models have an enormous potential for studying current phenomena such as vaccine hesitancy. Unfortunately, to date, most of the models have little to no empirical…
Detect opinion-based groups and reveal polarisation in survey data
Alejandro Dinkelberg, David JP O'Sullivan, Michael Quayle +1
Networks, representing attitudinal survey data, expose the structure of opinion-based groups. We make use of these network projections to identify the groups reliably through commu…
Identifying opinion-based groups from survey data: a bipartite network approach
Pádraig MacCarron, Paul J. Maher, Michael Quayle
A survey can be represented by a bipartite network as it has two types of nodes, participants and items in which participants can only interact with items. We introduce an agreemen…