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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Social Science

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  • Collective intelligence enables groups to solve complex problems, sometimes surpassing individual experts.
  • Effective aggregation of individual judgments is crucial for group success.
  • Existing methods include averaging, majority rule, and group discussion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate a novel judgment aggregation method: the transmission chain.
  • To determine if the transmission chain enhances collective intelligence for binary-choice problems.
  • To compare the transmission chain's performance against majority rule and confidence-weighted majority.

Main Methods:

  • Numerical simulations exploring group size, model parameters, and population structure.
  • Empirical evaluation using two existing datasets of binary decisions.
  • Comparison of transmission chain, majority rule, and confidence-weighted majority.

Main Results:

  • The transmission chain's optimal performance parameters are seldom observed in real-world datasets.
  • Simulations and empirical tests indicate limitations for binary-choice problems.
  • The transmission chain's effectiveness varies significantly with problem type and parameters.

Conclusions:

  • The transmission chain is not optimal for binary-choice problems.
  • This aggregation method shows potential for problems with cumulative properties.
  • Further research is needed to identify suitable applications for the transmission chain.