Persistence of disagreement in social networks
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Acemoglu, Daron; Como, Giacomo; Fagnani, Fabio; Ozdaglar, Asuman E.
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Disagreement among individuals in a society,
even on central questions that have been debated for centuries,
is the rule; agreement is the rare exception. How can
disagreement of this sort persist for so long? Existing models of
communication and learning, based on Bayesian or non-
Bayesian updating mechanisms, typically lead to consensus
provided that communication takes place over a strongly
connected network.
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2010-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision SystemsJournal
19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, (MTNS 2010)
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Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Acemoglu, Daron, Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani, and Asuman Ozdaglar. "Persistence of Disagreement in Social Networks." in Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, (MTNS 2010), Systems on Graphs (Regular Session), Budapest, Hungary, July 5-9, 2010.
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