The Sociology Behind the #MeToo movement – an important example of information cascades in society
Gradual unfolding for 40 years’: The sociology behind the #MeToo movement The #MeToo movement is a growing movement around the world, encouraging victims of sexual assault and harassment to come forward with their allegations. Often, victims of those actions fear to speak out due to retaliation and other negative factors. This has led to millions […]
Power Laws and Goal Scoring
http://www.soccerstatistically.com/blog/2013/1/20/power-laws-and-goal-scoring.html In this article, the author talks about how the number of goals scored per player in soccer tends to follow a power law distribution. Most players score 0 goals in a season, and the second most common number of goals scored is 1. Fewer players score 2 goals, even fewer score 3, and so […]
Social Behavior for Autonomous Vehicles
Many aspects of driving cars can be modeled as social games. People want to get to wherever they are going quickly, but also do not want to crash their cars. Drivers have to consider what they expect other drivers to do while weighing what their own next moves will be. As such, with the introduction […]
Information Cascades on Twitter hashtags
http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/top/modules/newdb/extract/1144/data/A%20Study%20on%20Characteristics%20of%20Topic-Specific%20Information%20Cascade%20in%20Twitter.pdf Social networking sites connect people who share the same interests and help communicate information. Studies have looked into network structure, user relationships and information cascades as well. This paper “A Study on Characteristics of Topic-Specific Information Cascade in Twitter” studies the hashtag cascade on twitter. Specifically, it looks into patterns of information diffusion and […]
Information Cascades: How Polls Can Affect Our Democratic Process
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-biased-polls-skew-elections-experimental.html With the fifth Democratic 2020 presidential debate concluding last night, I began thinking about how much of an affect poll numbers do, and will ultimately have, on the outcome of our presidential election. As a result, I realized the topic of my final blog post, and as such, I will be discussing how […]
Why We Need a Dating App that Understands Nash Equilibrium
https://qz.com/996851/why-we-need-a-dating-app-that-understands-nashs-equilibrium/ The article linked above, titled “Why we need a dating app that understands Nash’s equilibrium”, discusses Nash Equilibrium and network exchange in the context of online dating. The article’s main issue with online dating is that due to large gender imbalances on most dating apps (where the ratio of men to women is […]
The Cascade That Comes With Fake Instagram Followers
5 Pros and Cons of Buying Instagram Followers With the increased presence of social media in our daily lives, current college students turn to Instagram over any other platform. This puts Instagram in a unique position; it has the power to reach so many people, make real changes, and influence decisions in real time. These […]
How A Strategy Can Be Evolutionarily Stable. Until It’s Not – A Look At “Burnout”
Source – https://onezero.medium.com/the-darwinian-science-behind-the-burnout-generation-30b4cc74449b In class, we have begun to look at game theory in the context of evolution. Specifically, we have begun to explore the idea of evolutionarily stable strategies, or strategies that, once adopted by a population, tend to stay adopted by that population. Sometimes, however, these stable strategies can lead to negative outcomes, […]
“No one goes there, it’s too crowded”- Yogi Berra
“No one goes there, it’s too crowded”- Yogi Berra Network effects and Restaurants http://girlingamba.com/shake-shack-worth-it-review/ This is a famous quote by the late Yogi Berra, a professional baseball player known for his witty sayings. The quote itself is a contradiction, if no goes there than it wouldn’t be crowded, but it is. However, this quote […]
Opinion Cascades and Partisan Polarization
In a recent paper published by Macy et. al (2019), the researchers discuss partisan polarization and how certain policies whether cultural, economic or religious get associated with a certain party in the United States. To study this polarization, they conduct an experiment and show that how people associate policies to parties is largely dependent on […]
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