Nature Communications (May 2021)

Modularity and composite diversity affect the collective gathering of information online

  • Niccolò Pescetelli,
  • Alex Rutherford,
  • Iyad Rahwan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23424-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, the authors test the ability of groups to predict real world geopolitical events using online content, and provide evidence suggesting that group diversity helps forecasting ability as a function of group size.