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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"the wisdom of crowds"”.
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Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds From Crowdsourcing Platforms
Enabled by the wave of online crowdsourcing activities, extracting the Wisdom of Crowds (WoC) has become an emerging research area, one that is used to aggregate judgments, opinions, or predictions from a large group of individuals for improved decision making. However, existing literature mostly …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
Professional fact-checking, a prominent approach to combating misinformation, does not scale easily. Furthermore, some distrust fact-checkers because of alleged liberal bias. We explore a solution to these problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. …
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THE MORE, THE BETTER? MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED EFFICACY OF A DISAGGREGATE APPROACH TO MULTIPLE-CUE EVALUATIONS
… an evaluation involves assessing multiple items of information about a target, evaluators can choose between two opposing strategies: reviewing all target information at once and forming an overall evaluation (a holistic approach) or reviewing each item of information independently and combining …
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Eliciting and Aggregating Forecasts When Information is Shared
<p>Using the wisdom of crowds---combining many individual forecasts to obtain an aggregate estimate---can be an effective technique for improving forecast accuracy. When individual forecasts are drawn from independent and identical information sources, a simple average provides the optimal crowd …
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how characteristics of Web 2.0, users’ beliefs on freedom of information in the Web, and external forces combine to create social stability and how changes in these factors can lead to revolts. While still an emerging phenomenon, the web has evolved …
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
This thesis is a broad survey of conservatism-in-general, written in the immediate context of important conservative institutions being threatened by or having already fallen to radical populism and reactionaryism. The thesis provides groundwork to help establish principles of conservatism (POCs), …
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Essays on Understanding and Combating Misinformation at Scale
In Chapter 1, I explore the use of crowdsourcing as a potential solution to the misinformation problem at scale. Perhaps the most prominent approach to combating misinformation is the use of professional fact-checkers. This approach, however, is not scalable: Professional fact-checkers cannot …
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Spam Analysis and Detection for User Generated Content in Online Social Networks
Recent years have witnessed the success of a number of online social networks(OSNs) and explosive increasing of social media. These social networking andsocial media sites have attracted a significant number of participants thatcontribute various types of contents on the Internet, which are …
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Patent abandonment and subsequent cumulative inventions
This dissertation explores how the focal firm’s patent abandonment strategy can facilitate cumulative inventions by external inventors, as well as subsequent cumulative inventions by the focal firm to enable value creation and value capture. To keep a patent in force in the United States, a firm …