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The Social Influence Effect in Relation to Crowd Estimates

The social influence effect describes convergence of estimates without a comparable gain in collective accuracy. In Lorenz and colleagues’ factual-estimation experiment, seeing others’ estimates strongly reduced group diversity, while collective error changed only slightly.

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Updated 2026-10-08

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