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Should You Follow the Crowd? Information Cascades and their Underlying Cognitive Mechanisms

Introduction From buying stocks to getting vaccinated or even crossing the street, people rely greatly on others to help make their decisions. In all these examples, people decide sequentially which will indefinitely lead to information cascades. I am going to dive a little deeper into this concept and look at some of the intricacies of […]

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Improving Humanitarian Aid for Human Displacement Using Graph theory and Social Networks

Introduction Human displacement is the relocation of an individual usually driven by unwanted circumstances such as climate change, conflict, and human rights violations. Doing this is a deeply distressing task as they may be leaving friends, loved ones, and the comfort of familiarity involuntarily. In 2014, United Nation Refugee Agency showed that 59.5 million individuals […]