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Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics
Peter M Krafft, Michael Macy, Alex Pentland
The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool…
Inferring Population Preferences via Mixtures of Spatial Voting Models
Alison Nahm, Alex Pentland, Peter Krafft
Understanding political phenomena requires measuring the political preferences of society. We introduce a model based on mixtures of spatial voting models that infers the underlyin…
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
Peter M. Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan +5
Collective intelligence is believed to underly the remarkable success of human society. The formation of accurate shared beliefs is one of the key components of human collective in…
Popularity and Performance: A Large-Scale Study
Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Erez Shmueli +3
Social scientists have long sought to understand why certain people, items, or options become more popular than others. One seemingly intuitive theory is that inherent value drives…