Socio-Diversity: Scale-Free vs. Watts-Strogatz Networks (VIDEO)

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Here you can see two very different social networks: the upper one is a centralized network, such as those found in social networks like Facebook or X in the vast majority of cases. The lower network is a decentralized network – the so-called Watts-Strogatz network. The thick black line reflects the population’s socio-diversity in each of the two networks. For the same innovation rate, socio-diversity is typically much higher in decentralized networks.

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Andrea Musso and Dirk Helbing

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