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Duncan J. Watts

Researcher at University of Pennsylvania

Publications -  151
Citations -  91960

Duncan J. Watts is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomness & Small-world network. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 146 publications receiving 83816 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan J. Watts include Cornell University & Microsoft.

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Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences

TL;DR: This article found that 17% of Americans are partisan-segregated through television versus roughly 4% online, and that TV viewers' news diets are far more concentrated on preferred sources.
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Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, a modular virtual lab called empirica is proposed to increase the accessibility of virtual lab experiments, remove barriers to innovation in experiment design, and enable rapid progress in the understanding of human behavior.
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Redefine Statistical Significance

TL;DR: The authors proposed to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005, which is the threshold used in this paper.
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Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments

TL;DR: Empirica is a modular virtual lab that offers a solution to the usability–functionality trade-off by employing a “flexible defaults” design strategy, which enables us to maintain complete “build anything” flexibility while offering a development platform that is accessible to novice programmers.