Concept
The counterintuitive result (Kevin Zollman, central to O’Connor & Weatherall’s account) that increasing a community’s connectivity can reduce the accuracy of its beliefs: densely connected agents see each other’s preliminary, noisy results too quickly and converge prematurely on whichever answer took an early lead. More communication is not monotonically better — there is an optimum. Bears directly on the Part IV integration question.
Connections
- Defined in: The Integration Problem
- Discussed in: Ch 12 — Infrastructure for Integration, Ch 9 — The Integration Problem
- Evidenced by: The Misinformation Age
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