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Crowd control: Reducing individual estimation bias by sharing biased social information

2019-09-19

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<p>Cognitive biases are widespread in humans and animals alike, and can sometimes be reinforced by social interactions. One prime bias in judgment and decision-making is the human tendency to underestimate large quantities. Previous research on social influence in estimation tasks has generally focused on the impact of single estimates on individual and collective accuracy, showing that randomly sharing estimates...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hn8rz

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