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Repository for Abdullah Almaatouq's presentation at the CSS Workshop (4/11/2019)
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Why the experiment allocates participant into three conditions? #34

Open ruixili opened 5 years ago

ruixili commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your presentation! It's such an interesting paper. I am wondering why the experiment allocates participant into three conditions. Is solo condition necessary in this experiment? What's the meaning for it?

amaatouq commented 5 years ago

Solo is the traditional wisdom of crowds (i.e., signals are independent). That's why we use it as a control (i.e., a baseline for comparison). Also, some studies have identified social learning as something that undermines the wisdom of crowds:

Lorenz, Jan, et al. "How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect." Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 108.22 (2011): 9020-9025.