A social-network illusion that makes things appear more popular than they are
Friday, July 3, 2015 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A trio of researchers at the University of California has uncovered a social-network illusion that might explain why some things become popular in cyberspace while others do not. Kristina Lerman, Xiaoran Yan and Xin-Zeng Wu have written a paper describing the illusion and how it works and have posted it on the preprint server arXiv.