Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/257449 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Games [ISSN:] 2073-4336 [Volume:] 11 [Issue:] 3 [Article No.:] 31 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
When groups face difficult problems, the voices of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a "naturally noisy" setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the expert's voice was "lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more inferior information was optimal. A single individual had little chance to improve the outcome and coordinating with the whole group was impossible. In this setting, we examined the change in behavior before and after people could talk to their neighbors. We found that the number of people who reduced noise by holding back their information strongly and significantly increased.
Subjects: 
communication
coordination
information aggregation
swing voter's curse
JEL: 
D71
D72
D81
D82
C99
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Document Type: 
Article
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