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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…
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…
Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination
Peter M. Krafft, Chris L. Baker, Alex Pentland +1
Whether in groups of humans or groups of computer agents, collaboration is most effective between individuals who have the ability to coordinate on a joint strategy for collective…