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Displaying Things in Common to Encourage Friendship Formation: A Large Randomized Field Experiment
Tianshu Sun, Sean J. Taylor
Friendship formation is important to online social network sites and to society, but can suffer from informational friction. In this study, we demonstrate that social networks may…
Active Matrix Factorization for Surveys
Chelsea Zhang, Sean J. Taylor, Curtiss Cobb +1
Amid historically low response rates, survey researchers seek ways to reduce respondent burden while measuring desired concepts with precision. We propose to ask fewer questions of…
Randomized experiments to detect and estimate social influence in networks
Sean J. Taylor, Dean Eckles
Estimation of social influence in networks can be substantially biased in observational studies due to homophily and network correlation in exposure to exogenous events. Randomized…
Discussion quality diffuses in the digital public square
George Berry, Sean J. Taylor
Studies of online social influence have demonstrated that friends have important effects on many types of behavior in a wide variety of settings. However, we know much less about h…
Selection Effects in Online Sharing: Consequences for Peer Adoption
Sean J. Taylor, Eytan Bakshy, Sinan Aral
Most models of social contagion take peer exposure to be a corollary of adoption, yet in many settings, the visibility of one's adoption behavior happens through a separate decisio…