Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization
Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization
Are we as a society getting more polarized, and if so, why? We try to answer this question through a model of opinion formation. Empirical studies have shown that homophily results in polarization. However, we show that DeGroot's well-known model of opinion formation based on repeated averaging can never be …