"Big data" needs an analysis of decision processes

Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Feb;37(1):76-8. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13001659.

Abstract

We demonstrate by means of a simulation that the conceptual map presented by Bentley et al. is incomplete without taking into account people's decision processes. Within the same environment, two decision processes can generate strikingly different collective behavior; in two environments that fundamentally differ in transparency, a single process gives rise to virtually identical behavior.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Data Collection*
  • Decision Making*
  • Humans
  • Social Behavior*
  • Social Networking*