title: Understanding social networks requires more than two dimensions.
abstract: The proposed framework is insufficient to categorize and understand current evidence on decision making. There are some ambiguities in the questions asked that require additional distinctions between correctness and accuracy, decision making and learning, accuracy and confidence, and social influence and empowerment. Social learning techniques are not all the same: Behavior copying is quite different from theory passing. Sigmoidal acquisition curves are not unique to social learning and are often mistaken for other accelerating curves.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science, Network Dynamics Lab, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7, Canada. derek.ruths@mcgill.ca http://www.derekruths.com/
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ruths
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Natural and Simulated Cognition, and School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada. thomas.shultz@mcgill.ca http://www.tomshultz.net/
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shultz
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking