uchicago-computation-workshop / abdullah_almaatouq

Repository for Abdullah Almaatouq's presentation at the CSS Workshop (4/11/2019)
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Wisdom of crowds and fake news #25

Open sanittawan opened 5 years ago

sanittawan commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for the fun and super cool paper! I am intrigued by the idea of the wisdom of the networks and how you and your co-authors proposed a method that resembles the dynamic influence network.

Simultaneously, I am also bugged by the spread of fake news through social media, especially when some look very real and people still believe them! I wonder if you were to run a similar experiment but change the experimental tasks to classifying which news is fake, would you still expect similar results to hold in general, i.e. individual placed in dynamic social networks will outperform the solo and static conditions? Is it even possible to run such an experiment? I am just wondering about situations when the experimental tasks play into certain "biases," be it political ideology or stereotype about race and gender.