Feb 19, 2024 | News, PennMAP
A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on user’s political views than is commonly believed. About a quarter of a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of...
Feb 7, 2024 | Common Sense, Featured, News
Mark E. Whiting’s and Duncan J. Watts’s latest research reveals that common sense is in fact rare, demonstrated by a quantitative method they designed to measure common sense at the individual and collective level. Their research has been extensively featured in...
Jan 24, 2024 | Common Sense, News
Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news How common is common sense? A straightforward question that, surprisingly, has yet to receive a definitive science-based answer. Now, PIK Professor Duncan Watts and co-author Mark...
Jan 17, 2024 | Common Sense, News, Published
In general we believe that we possess common sense to a certain extent, but have you ever wondered if what you perceive to be common sense is also considered common sense to others? In other words, is common sense actually common? The answer remains elusive in large...
Nov 29, 2023 | News, PennMAP
Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news Photo by Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory....
