The Results of Meadows and Cliff Are Wrong Because They Compute Indicator y Before Model Convergence

Guillaume Deffuant (), Gérard Weisbuch (), Frederic Amblard () and Thierry Faure ()
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Guillaume Deffuant: http://motive.cemagref.fr/people/guillaume.deffuant
Gérard Weisbuch: http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch/
Frederic Amblard: http://simsoc.free.fr/

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2013, vol. 16, issue 1, 11

Abstract: Meadows and Cliff (2012) failed to replicate the results of Deffuant et al. (2002) and concluded that our paper was wrong. In this note, we show that the conclusions of Meadows and Cliff are due to a wrong computation of indicator y, which was not fully specified in our 2002 paper. In particular, Meadows and Cliff compute indicator y before model convergence whereas this indicator should be computed after model convergence.

Keywords: Opinion Dynamics; Social Simulation; Agents Based Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01-31
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