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The Influence of Mother Wisdom on Augustine
Open Theology, 2021 The Book of Ben Sira was popular in the early Christian church and influenced the Church Father Augustine (354–430). He adopts the person of Wisdom as a divine mother and adapts her within the context of the early Christian church.
Bouwman Kitty
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How Social Influence Affects the Wisdom of Crowds in Influence Networks
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023 A long-standing debate is whether social influence improves the collective wisdom of a crowd or undermines it. This paper addresses this question based on a naive learning setting in influence systems theory: in our models individuals evolve their estimates of an unknown truth according to the weighted-average opinion dynamics. A formal mathematization
Ye Tian, Long Wang, Francesco Bullo
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 With the rapid development of digital information technology, life has become more convenient for people; however, the digital divide for the elderly was even more serious, so they became a forgotten group in the internet age over time. Residents' demand
Jian Zhou +3 more
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Finite-time influence systems and the Wisdom of Crowd effect
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2019 Recent contributions have studied how an influence system may affect the wisdom of crowd phenomenon. In the so-called naive learning setting, a crowd of individuals holds opinions that are statistically independent estimates of an unknown parameter; the ...
Bullo, Francesco +2 more
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Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017 SignificanceSince the discovery of the wisdom of crowds over 100 years ago theories of collective intelligence have held that group accuracy requires either statistical independence or informational diversity among individual beliefs. Empirical evidence suggests that allowing people to observe the beliefs of others leads to increased similarity of ...
Joshua Becker +2 more
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Social Influence Undermines the Wisdom of the Crowd in Sequential Decision Making [PDF]
Management Science, 2021 Teams, juries, electorates, and committees must often select from various alternative courses of action what they judge to be the best option. The phenomenon that the central tendency of many independent estimates is often quite accurate—“the wisdom of the crowd”—suggests that group decisions based on plurality voting can be surprisingly wise.
Vincenz Frey
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Whether, and under what conditions, groups exhibit “crowd wisdom” has been a major focus of research across the social and computational sciences. Much of this work has focused on the role of social influence in promoting the wisdom of the crowd versus ...
Abdullah Almaatouq +3 more
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors’ opinions.
Benjamin Golub, Matthew O. Jackson
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How to measure wisdom: Content, reliability, and validity of five measures
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Wisdom is a field of growing interest both inside and outside academic psychology, and researchers are increasingly interested in using measures of wisdom in their work.
Judith eGlück +6 more
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Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018 Abstract Aggregating multiple non-expert opinions into a collective estimate can improve accuracy across many contexts. However, two sources of error can diminish collective wisdom: individual estimation biases and information sharing between individuals.
Albert B Kao +2 more
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