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Evidence of Herding and Stubbornness in Jury Deliberations
Keith Burghardt, William Rand, Michelle Girvan
We explore how the mechanics of collective decision-making, especially of jury deliberation, can be inferred from macroscopic statistics. We first hypothesize that the dynamics of…
Dynamics of Content Quality in Collaborative Knowledge Production
Emilio Ferrara, Nazanin Alipourfard, Keith Burghardt +2
We explore the dynamics of user performance in collaborative knowledge production by studying the quality of answers to questions posted on Stack Exchange. We propose four indicato…
Self-Organization of Dragon Kings
Yuansheng Lin, Keith Burghardt, Martin Rohden +2
The mechanisms underlying cascading failures are often modeled via the paradigm of self-organized criticality. Here we introduce a simple model where nodes self-organize to be eith…
On Quitting: Performance and Practice in Online Game Play
Tushar Agarwal, Keith A. Burghardt, Kristina Lerman
We study the relationship between performance and practice by analyzing the activity of many players of a casual online game. We find significant heterogeneity in the improvement o…