O'Connor, Cailin and Weatherall, James Owen (2017) Scientific Polarization. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Contemporary societies are often "polarized", in the sense that sub-groups within these societies hold stably opposing beliefs, even when there is a fact of the matter. Extant models of polarization do not capture the idea that some beliefs are true and others false. Here we present a model, based on the network epistemology framework of Bala and Goyal ["Learning from neighbors", \textit{Rev. Econ. Stud.} \textbf{65}(3), 784-811 (1998)], in which polarization emerges even though agents gather evidence about their beliefs, and true belief yields a pay-off advantage. The key mechanism that generates polarization involves treating evidence generated by other agents as uncertain when their beliefs are relatively different from one's own.
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Keywords: | Polarization, social networks, epistemic networks, trust | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Society |
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Depositing User: | James Owen Weatherall | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2018 03:02 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2018 03:02 | |||||||||
Item ID: | 15479 | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Society |
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Date: | 2017 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15479 |
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