4 papers
Network Structures of Collective Intelligence: The Contingent Benefits of Group Discussion
Joshua Becker, Abdullah Almaatouq, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
Research on belief formation has produced contradictory findings on whether and when communication between group members will improve the accuracy of numeric estimates such as econ…
Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments
Abdullah Almaatouq, Joshua Becker, James P. Houghton +3
Virtual labs allow researchers to design high-throughput and macro-level experiments that are not feasible in traditional in-person physical lab settings. Despite the increasing po…
Winning Models for GPA, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge
Daniel E Rigobon, Eaman Jahani, Yoshihiko Suhara +4
In this paper, we discuss and analyze our approach to the Fragile Families Challenge. The challenge involved predicting six outcomes for 4,242 children from disadvantaged families…
The Wisdom of the Network: How Adaptive Networks Promote Collective Intelligence
Abdullah Almaatouq, Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Abdulrahman Alotaibi +3
Social networks continuously change as new ties are created and existing ones fade. It is widely noted that our social embedding exerts a strong influence on what information we re…