Collective inference depends on the communication channel

This repository contains code, data, and analyses for our manuscript "Collective inference depends on the communication channel."

Repository Structure

/experiments

Empirica experiment code for the web-based platform (client and server).

/data

Experimental data organized by experiment (exp1, exp2) with raw Empirica exports and merged datasets.

/analysis

Quarto notebooks reproducing all reported statistics:

• exp1/exp1_main_analysis.qmd — Experiment 1 analyses
• exp2/1_data_cleaning.qmd — Experiment 2 data preparation
• exp2/exp2_main_analysis.qmd — Experiment 2 analyses

/models

Computational models:

• fit.py — Fits Belief (DeGroot) and Evidence (count-based) models to Experiment 1 data
• predict.py — Generates Experiment 2 predictions from fitted parameters

/stimuli

Game generation scripts for Experiment 2 stimuli. See stimuli/README.md for details.