Institute for Data, Systems, and Society: Recent submissions

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    • Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration 

      Salganik, Matthew J.; Lundberg, Ian; Kindel, Alexander T.; Ahearn, Caitlin E.; Al-Ghoneim, Khaled; e.a. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-04-14)
      How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile ...

    • Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem 

      Somin, Shahar; Altshuler, Yaniv; Gordon, Goren; Pentland, Alex; Shmueli, Erez (Scientific Reports, 2020-03-12)
      Global financial crises have led to the understanding that classical econometric models are limited in comprehending financial markets in extreme conditions, partially since they disregarded complex interactions within the ...

    • Turkers of the World Unite: Multilevel In-Group Bias Among Crowdworkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk 

      Almaatouq, Abdullah; Krafft, Peter; Dunham, Yarrow; Rand, David G.; Pentland, Alex (Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020-03-01)
      Crowdsourcing has become an indispensable tool in the behavioral sciences. Often, the “crowd” is considered a black box for gathering impersonal but generalizable data. Researchers sometimes seem to forget that crowdworkers ...