Social influence makes outlier opinions in online reviews offer more helpful information

Abstract Identifying helpful information from large-scale online reviews has become a core issue in studies on harnessing wisdom-of-crowds. We investigated whether online reviews expressing dissenting opinions (i.e., outlier reviews) can provide helpful information. Using statistical and simulation...

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Main Authors: Kunhao Yang, Itsuki Fujisaki, Kazuhiro Ueda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35953-4