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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...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 579 - 595
Main Author: Huang, Alice C. W.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Jul2024
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