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Announcements. April 12, 2011. Making decisions with other people’s choices as an input. [Salganic, Dodds, Watts – Science 2006]. Artificial music market 48 unknown songs, 14k participants Participants listen , rate , and (maybe) download Experiment 1:

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  1. Announcements April 12, 2011

  2. Making decisions with other people’s choices as an input [Salganic, Dodds, Watts – Science 2006] • Artificial music market • 48 unknown songs, 14k participants • Participants listen, rate, and (maybe) download • Experiment 1: • “Independent world”: choose songs from a grid • “Social world” (x8): also see #prior downloads (weak signal) • Experiment 2: • “Independent world”: choose songs from a list • “Social world” (x8): list sorted by #prior downloads (stronger signal) • Results: based on average differences in market share • Inequality: compare different songs in same “world” • Unpredictability: compare same songs in different “worlds”

  3. Making decisions with other people’s choices as an input [Salganic, Dodds, Watts – Science 2006]

  4. WIKI SURVEYS: OPEN, ADAPTIVE, AND QUANTIFIABLE SOCIAL DATA COLLECTION MATTHEW SALGANIK Department of Sociology, Princeton University Today at 3:30pm, in Gates-Hillman 4303 Research about attitudes and opinions is central to social science and relies on two common methodological approaches: surveys and interviews. While surveys allow researchers to quantify large amounts of information quickly and at a reasonable cost, they are routinely criticized for being "top-down" and rigid. In contrast, interviews allow unanticipated information to "bubble up" directly from respondents, but are slow, expensive, and hard to quantify. Advances in computing technology now enable a hybrid approach, "wiki surveys", that combines the quantifiability of a survey with the openness of an interview. We draw on principles undergirding successful information aggregation projects, such as Wikipedia and the Linux operating system, to propose several theoretical criteria that wiki surveys should satisfy. We then present results from www.allourideas.org, a free and open source website that we created, which allows groups all over the world to deploy wiki surveys. To date, over 800 wiki surveys have been created, and they have collected over 30,000 ideas and 2 million votes. We describe some of the methodological challenges involved in collecting and analyzing this type of data, and present case studies of wiki surveys created by the New York City Mayor's Office and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The talk concludes a discussion of limitations and how some of these limitations might be overcome with additional research.

  5. Schedule coming up • Today: • three student talks on social problem solving • Thus 4/14: 2 student talks + lecture • Tues 4/19: 2 student talks + lecture • Thus 4/21: 2 student talks + lecture • Tues 4/26, Thus 4/28, Tues 5/3: projects

  6. Schedule coming up • Today: • three student talks on social problem solving • Thus 4/14: No class, carnival • Tues 4/19: 3 student talks • Thus 4/21: 3 student talks • Tues 4/26, Thus 4/28, Tues 5/3: projects • 20min talks for each project

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