Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Science, 2006 · paper · Sociology
An experiment with 14,341 participants in an artificial music market, where people downloaded unknown songs with or without seeing others' choices. Stronger social influence increased both inequality and unpredictability of success, which was only partly determined by song quality.
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