The meta-wisdom of crowds.
It is well-known that people will adjust their first-order beliefs based on observations of others. We explore how such adjustments interact with second-order beliefs regarding universalism and relativism in a population. Across a range of simulations, we show that populations where individuals have...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 3/4; pp. 11051 - 11075 |
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