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Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
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Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that “the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox experimentally, by creating an artificial “music market” in which 14,341 participants downloaded previously unknown songs either with or without knowledge of previous participants' choices. Increasing the strength of social influence increased both inequality and unpredictability of success. Success was also only partly determined by quality: The best songs rarely did poorly, and the worst rarely did well, but any other result was possible.
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“Rosen's economics of superstars [21] shows formally that when the cost of serving additional consumers approaches zero, cultural markets concentrate rewards on a small number of winners regardless of marginal quality differences”
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“The market-structure literature of §2.4 predicts what follows: superstar concentration under near-zero marginal cost [21], against which the long-tail alternative [22] is directly testable with the outcome data of Table 13, and choice-abundant markets whose winners are selected by social dynamics rather than quality gradients [23].”
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“When considering inequality in heterogeneous populations, there are two distinct aspects to take into account-the dispersion of outcomes and the predictability of outcomes (Lynn, Podolny, & Tao, 2009;Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006).”
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“In the case of an inherent quality or virtue, more predictable outcomes imply more equality and fairness (Cook & Hegtvedt, 1983;Jasso, 1983;Salganik et al., 2006).”
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“However, social success and quality of content are only partly correlated (Salganik et al., 2006).”
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“in a classic experiment, the popularity of all but the very best and worst songs was shown to be more related to stochastic early positive reception by other users than by their inherent quality”
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- Authors
- Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J.
- Affiliations
- Santa Fe Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Salganik, Matthew J.
- Dodds, Peter Sheridan
- Watts, Duncan J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2006-02-10
- Volume
- 311
- Issue
- 5762
- Pages
- 854-856
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2147453867
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- FWCI
- 116.70
- Type
- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Science (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- cultural market, social influence, music download, product success, consumer choice
- MeSH terms
- Consumer Behavior, Culture, Forecasting, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Music, Research Design, Social Behavior, Sociology, Internet
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