Monthly Archive for July, 2011

Article in “The Socionomist”

There is a nice article Are Crowds Wise or Mad? from the Socionomics Institute. It features results of our PNAS paper How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect.

Posters vs. Talks

This my view on organization of scientific conferences, especially the mid-size and large ones. In my opinion poster sessions are a much more efficient way of scientific communication than a bunch of 20 minutes talks. I advocate for upgrading the scientific prestige they deliver to the author to be above the prestige of short talks.
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