Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity.
Two types of formal models—landscape search tasks and two-armed bandit models—are often used to study the effects that various social factors have on epistemic performance. I argue that they can be understood within a single framework. In this unified framework, I develop a model that may be used to...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 579 - 595 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2024
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| Sumario: | Two types of formal models—landscape search tasks and two-armed bandit models—are often used to study the effects that various social factors have on epistemic performance. I argue that they can be understood within a single framework. In this unified framework, I develop a model that may be used to understand the effects of functional and demographic diversity and their interaction. Using the unified model, I find that the benefit of demographic diversity is most pronounced in a functionally homogeneous group, and decreases with increasing functional diversity. |
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