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Individuals, Crowds, and the Network Dynamics of Belief Accuracy
Charlie Pilgrim, Joshua Becker
Does talking to others make people more accurate or less accurate on numeric estimates such as quantitative evaluations or probabilistic forecasts? Research on peer-to-peer communi…
The Crowd Classification Problem: Social Dynamics of Binary Choice Accuracy
Joshua Becker, Douglas Guilbeault, Ned Smith
Decades of research suggest that information exchange in groups and organizations can reliably improve judgment accuracy in tasks such as financial forecasting, market research, an…
Probabilistic Social Learning Improves the Public's Detection of Misinformation
Douglas Guilbeault, Samuel Woolley, Joshua Becker
The digital spread of misinformation is one of the leading threats to democracy, public health, and the global economy. Popular strategies for mitigating misinformation include cro…
Network Structures of Collective Intelligence: The Contingent Benefits of Group Discussion
Joshua Becker, Abdullah Almaatouq, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
Research on belief formation has produced contradictory findings on whether and when communication between group members will improve the accuracy of numeric estimates such as econ…
Network Structure and Collective Intelligence in the Diffusion of Innovation
Joshua Becker
When multiple innovations compete for adoption, historical chance leading to early advantage can generate lock-in effects that allow suboptimal innovations to succeed at the expens…
Complex Contagions: A Decade in Review
Douglas Guilbeault, Joshua Becker, Damon Centola
Since the publication of 'Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties' in 2007, complex contagions have been studied across an enormous variety of social domains. In reviewing…