{"id":4328,"date":"2021-03-04T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:24:55","slug":"lira-session-patricia-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2021\/03\/lira-session-patricia-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa Session: Patricia Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/plrich.wordpress.com\/\">Patricia Rich<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date and Time: Thursday, April&nbsp;22nd 2021, 16:30-18:00, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/time\/zone\/netherlands\/amsterdam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amsterdam time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/guidelines-for-online-sessions\/\">online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations<b>.<\/b><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract. <\/em>Information cascades are troubling and well-studied because apparently individually-rational responses to evidence can lead entire communities to conform (participate in cascades), and hence to converge on the wrong answer. Yet existing theory cannot explain why a robust, substantial minority of people in experimental studies do not conform. Groups achieve improved reliability thanks to these non-conformists. I use simulations to study cascade problems in an evolutionary setting. The results show that although conforming maximizes expected fitness, non-conformists can persist and often flourish in the population. The reason is that by its nature, conformity carries an evolutionary cost.<\/p>\n<p>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/video.uva.nl\/media\/LIRa+seminar+on+2021-04-22+by+Patricia+Rich\/0_o39hfb38\">here<\/a> to view the recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Patricia Rich<br \/>\nDate and Time: Thursday, April&nbsp;22nd 2021, 16:30-18:00, Amsterdam time.<br \/>\nVenue: online.<br \/>\nTitle: Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract. Information cascades are troubling and well-studied because apparently individually-rational responses to evidence can lead entire communities to conform (participate in cascades), and hence to converge on the wrong answer. Yet existing theory cannot [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}