Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Klößner, Stefan - 2012
overstate their opinion. We model opinion formation as a dynamic process and identify conditions for convergence to consensus …. Studying the consensus in detail, we show that an agent's social in uence on the consensus opinion is increasing in network … consensus as an estimator for the true state of the world. We show that a society is \wise, i.e. the mean squared error is …