Large-Scale Experiment on the Importance of Social Learning and Unimodality in the Wisdom of the Crowd
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Using 17420 predictions that we collected from 2037 students, we build on previous research to understand the conditions within which the Wisdom of the Crowd (WoC) improves or worsens as a result of showing individuals the predictions of their peers. We use social learning weights to filter individuals who are better at learning from the crowd to improve accuracy. We also find the novel effect of the importance of the unimodality of the social information shown to individuals.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1712.10284 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017