Skype Data Study Reveals Real Patterns of Social Adoption
In class, we have been discussing information cascades and threshold cascade models. Global patterns of adoption spreading are manifested by local adoption cascades initialed by various adopters arriving at a constant rate, and social influence plays a huge role on whether an individual enters the cascade or not. As mentioned in class, stable adopters who […]
Tragedy of the Commons
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/20/why-i-give-my-students-a-tragedy-of-the-commons-extra-credit-challenge/ In this article, a professor at the University of Maryland poses a challenge to his class. He offers an “extra credit” bonus of either 2 or 6 points. Everyone has to choose either of the two options, and they receive a boost on their grade correlated to what they chose. However, there is a […]
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