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Turkers of the World Unite: Multilevel In-Group Bias Among Crowdworkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk
(Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020-03-01)
Crowdsourcing has become an indispensable tool in the behavioral sciences. Often, the “crowd” is considered a black box for gathering impersonal but generalizable data. Researchers sometimes seem to forget that crowdworkers ...
Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-05-11)
Social networks continuously change as new ties are created and existing ones fade. It is widely acknowledged that our social embedding has a substantial impact on what information we receive and how we form beliefs and ...
Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change
(PLOS ONE, 2016-03-22)
Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which ...
Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge
(Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2019-09-10)
In this article, the authors discuss and analyze their approach to the Fragile Families Challenge. The data consisted of more than 12,000 features (covariates) about the children and their parents, schools, and overall ...
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-04-14)
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile ...