Where did we all go wrong?

The wisdom of crowds can fail under social influence. Two new papers finally got accepted:

Enhanced or distorted wisdom of crowds? An agent-based model of opinion formation under social influence, forthcoming in: Swarm Intelligence (2021)

The ambiguous role of social influence on the wisdom of crowds: An analytic approach, in: Physica A (2021) 567:125624

A, rather indirect, contribution to the discussion about corona related measures.