Individuals fail to reap the collective benefits of diversity because of over-reliance on personal information

How social information can improve estimation accuracy in human groups

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Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments

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Information transmission via movement behaviour improves decision accuracy in human groups

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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Group discussion improves lie detection

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Detection Accuracy of Collective Intelligence Assessments for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

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Collective Intelligence Meets Medical Decision-Making: The Collective Outperforms the Best Radiologist

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Decision accuracy in complex environments is often maximized by small group sizes

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Humans use social information to adjust their quorum thresholds adaptively in a simulated predator detection experiment

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Social Influence and the Collective Dynamics of Opinion Formation

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Accurate decisions in an uncertain world: collective cognition increases true positives while decreasing false positives

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When Does Diversity Trump Ability (and Vice Versa) in Group Decision Making? A Simulation Study

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An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

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The evolutionary basis of human social learning

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Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

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Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups

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Are We Wise About the Wisdom of Crowds? The Use of Group Judgments in Belief Revision

(2009) Albert E. Mannes   MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Why Are Experts Correlated? Decomposing Correlations Between Judges

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Swarm intelligence in animals and humans

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Quorum responses and consensus decision making

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Group decisions in humans and animals: a survey

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Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

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ECONOMICS: The Promise of Prediction Markets

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