Mobius, Markus; Phan, Tuan; Szeidl, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We seed noisy information to members of a real-world social network to study how information diffusion and information … transmitted noisily. We then compare two theories of information aggregation: a naive model in which people double-count signals … source of information. We show that to distinguish between these models of aggregation, it is critical to explicitly account …