{"id":209272,"date":"2025-03-20T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/from-robot-swarms-to-human-societies-good-decisions-rely-on-the-right-mix-of-perspectives"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:06:52","slug":"from-robot-swarms-to-human-societies-good-decisions-rely-on-the-right-mix-of-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/from-robot-swarms-to-human-societies-good-decisions-rely-on-the-right-mix-of-perspectives","title":{"rendered":"From robot swarms to human societies, good decisions rely on the right mix of perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-robot-swarms-to-human-societies-good-decisions-rely-on-the-right-mix-of-perspectives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When groups make decisions\u2014whether it\u2019s humans aligning on a shared idea, robots coordinating tasks, or fish deciding where to swim\u2014not everyone contributes equally. Some individuals have more reliable information, whereas others are more connected and have higher social influence.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by researchers at the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence shows that a combination of uncertainty and heterogeneity plays a crucial role in how groups reach consensus.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-78856-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> by Vito Mengers, Mohsen Raoufi, Oliver Brock, Heiko Hamann, and Pawel Romanczuk, show that groups make faster and more accurate decisions when individuals factor in not only the opinions of their neighbors but also their confidence about these opinions and how connected those others are within the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When groups make decisions\u2014whether it\u2019s humans aligning on a shared idea, robots coordinating tasks, or fish deciding where to swim\u2014not everyone contributes equally. Some individuals have more reliable information, whereas others are more connected and have higher social influence. A new study by researchers at the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence shows that a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}