Empirical test of the many-wrongs hypothesis reveals weighted averaging of individual routes in pigeon flocks

Summary: The ‘many-wrongs hypothesis’ predicts that groups improve their decision-making performance by aggregating members’ diverse opinions. Although this has been considered one of the major benefits of collective movement and migration, whether and how multiple inputs are in fact aggregated for...

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Main Authors: Takao Sasaki, Naoki Masuda, Richard P. Mann, Dora Biro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-10-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222013487