Both knowability of a topic and independence of testimonials matter, but people differ in how much
Despite growing concerns about the effect of social media engagement on people’s beliefs and behavior, estimating the actual impact is difficult. Here we present preliminary results from our own isolated social media platform named Magpie Social. In …
When reasoning about a claim, it makes sense to be more persuaded if lots of other people agree. But, there are many factors that make weighing the evidence behind a consensus complicated. For example, a consensus might be more or less informative …
In a twitter-like experimental environment, we show that people are more influenced by the number of distinct posts than the number of distinct people, and hardly at all by the diversity of points made