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

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, Me...

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Published in:Journal of artificial societies and social simulation 2013-01, Vol.16 (1)
Main Authors: Deffuant, Guillaume, Weisbuch, Gerard, Amblard, Frederic, Faure, Thierry
Format: Article
Language:English
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Agency
Cliff, Dave
Computational methods
Environmental Sciences
Error
Meadows, Michael
Opinions
Public opinion
Simulation
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Summary: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. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1460-7425
1460-7425
DOI:10.18564/jasss.2211