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Rational Social Learning Makes Group Hiring More Efficient and Biased

2025-09-30

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<p>Humans learn not only from personal experience but also by observing others. Integrating social information often allows groups to make decisions more efficiently and accurately than individuals, yet it can also generate persistent bias. These opposing outcomes are typically attributed to different mechanisms, with optimal outcomes linked to how people rationally update their beliefs, share information, and mak...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nk632_v1

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