Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Under what conditions do groups outperform their individual members? This question is of paramount importance and has spurred many studies in management and organizational science, psychology, sociology, complex systems, and computer science.
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Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Becker J, Brackbill D, Centola D.
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Wisdom of crowds benefits perceptual decision making across difficulty levels [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Decades of research on collective decision making has claimed that aggregated judgment of multiple individuals is more accurate than expert individual judgement. A longstanding problem in this regard has been to determine how decisions of individuals can
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Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The ability to learn from others (social learning) is often deemed a cause of human species success. But if social learning is indeed more efficient (whether less costly or more accurate) than individual learning, it raises the question of why would ...
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The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
J Bus Res, 2021 This study investigates the role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PageRank's ability to track webpage quality: reconciling Google's wisdom-of-crowds justification with the scale-free structure of the web [PDF]
Heliyon, 2018 We address the fundamental question why we should use PageRank and similar link-based algorithms in search engines, if at all. In a legendary article from 1998, the Google founders gave an intriguing wisdom-of-crowds justification for PageRank according ...
George Masterton, Erik J. Olsson
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The wisdom of partisan crowds [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Theories in favor of deliberative democracy are based on the premise that social information processing can improve group beliefs. While research on the “wisdom of crowds” has found that information exchange can increase belief accuracy on noncontroversial factual matters, theories of political polarization imply that groups will become more extreme ...
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Identification of influencers through the wisdom of crowds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Identifying individuals who are influential in diffusing information, ideas or products in a population remains a challenging problem. Most extant work can be abstracted by a process in which researchers first decide which features describe an influencer
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Deliberation and the wisdom of crowds
Economic Theory, 2022 Does pre-voting group deliberation improve majority outcomes? To address this question, we develop a probabilistic model of opinion formation and deliberation.
F. Dietrich, Kai P. Spiekermann
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Stakeholder diversity matters: employing the wisdom of crowds for data-poor fisheries assessments [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEmbracing local knowledge is vital to conserve and manage biodiversity, yet frameworks to do so are lacking. We need to understand which, and how many knowledge holders are needed to ensure that management recommendations arising from local knowledge are
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