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Bias amplification in experimental social networks is reduced by resampling
Mathew D. Hardy, Bill D. Thompson, P. M. Krafft +1
Large-scale social networks are thought to contribute to polarization by amplifying people's biases. However, the complexity of these technologies makes it difficult to identify th…
Designing for Participation and Change in Digital Institutions
Peter Krafft, Brian Keegan, Seth Frey
Whether we recognize it or not, the Internet is rife with exciting and original institutional forms that are transforming social organization on and offline. Issues of governance i…
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…
Large-Scale Experiment on the Importance of Social Learning and Unimodality in the Wisdom of the Crowd
Dhaval Adjodah, Shi Kai Chong, Yan Leng +2
In this study, we build on previous research to understand the conditions within which the Wisdom of the Crowd (WoC) improves or worsens as a result of showing individuals the pred…
Social Bayesian Learning in the Wisdom of the Crowd
Dhaval Adjodah, Yan Leng, Shi Kai Chong +2
Being able to correctly aggregate the beliefs of many people into a single belief is a problem fundamental to many important social, economic and political processes such as policy…
Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems
L. Elisa Celis, Peter M. Krafft, Nathan Kobe
One goal of online social recommendation systems is to harness the wisdom of crowds in order to identify high quality content. Yet the sequential voting mechanisms that are commonl…
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…