The myopia of crowds: Cognitive load and collective evaluation of answers on Stack Exchange

• Keith Burghardt ,

  * E-mail: kaburghardt@ucdavis.edu

  Affiliations Dept of Computer Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America, Dept of Political Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

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• Emanuel F. Alsina,

  Current address: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Milan, Italy

  Affiliation University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena MO, Italy

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• Michelle Girvan,

  Affiliations Dept of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America

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• William Rand,

  Affiliation Department of Business Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Kristina Lerman

  Affiliation Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States of America

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