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Like ants, humans are easily led - Telegraph
By Jon Dron February 17, 2008 - 1:05pm
http://community.brighton.ac.uk/jd29/weblog/21863.html
Full story at: http://jondron.cofind.net:80/frshowresource.php?tid=5325&resid=1358
Reporting findings from Utrecht that not only do people tend to follow the leader (nothing new here), but they will even repeat sub-optimal paths when informed of alternative routes. It seems that mob stupidity sticks! This has some interesting potential implications for allowing the crowd to teach itself using social navigation: even if the path is palpably wrong it may get reinforced.
Created:Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:05:23 GMT
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