Converging evidence

What is it about?

How are new languages created? How do people agree on what to call objects in the world? We studied how the social network structure (who talks to who) impacts these processes. We compared a social network with lots of connections (rich network) to a network with few connections (sparse network), and found that people in rich networks agreed on words for things in less time, but only because multiple conversations could happen simultaneously in these rich networks.

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