Browsing Universidad Torcuato Di Tella by Author "Balenzuela, Pablo"

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Attraction by ingroup coherence drives the emergence of ideological sorting

Navajas, Joaquín; Zimmerman, Federico; Pedraza, Lucía; Balenzuela, Pablo (2023)

The increasing political polarization is driving hatred and segregation, and these pose a threat to democracy. While disagreement on policy issues is increasing and receiving great attention, people are also becoming more ...
The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy

Barrera Lermarchand, Federico; Balenzuela, Pablo; Bahrami,Bahador; Deroy, Ophelia; Navajas Joaquin (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)

The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking news, ...