Disentangling the Effects of Social Signals — mentioned by marketforlemmas

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:26:41 GMT

Thanks for the feedback (and the Watts' reference). Building a plugin is definitely an interesting idea; I hadn't thought of that before. I guess the problems would be three-fold. First, I don't know how to do that :-). Second, there are probably a bunch of ethical concerns/IRB issues that would stand in the way of academic publishing (but thats not huge). Third, and the only fundamental issue, is that the self-selection into using that plug-in would bias the estimates of intrinsic quality. Still its a pretty good idea but I'm currently trying to get access to more fine-grained data in other…

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Disentangling the Effects of Social Signals — mentioned by marketforlemmas