Remember when I told you that Learning a Social Graph Does NOT Depend on Method of Training? Well, I just hadn’t found the right type of training yet.
In fact, the results of one of my recent experiments suggest that using a diagram to teach subjects “what is connected to what” is better than telling them explicitly what is connected to what. Below are two images based on the stimuli the subjects saw.
Diagram Training Stimulus
Edge Training Stimulus
The experimental manipulation was within-subject, so I could compare subjects’ own performance across the two types of training. Given the same amount of training, subjects answer more questions about the structure of the graph correctly in the Diagram Training condition than they do in the Node-Centric Edge Training condition.
Accuracy by Training Type and Graph Type
You may notice that subjects learned two types of graph in addition to enduring two types of training. Stay tuned for a post about Ring Lattice graphs versus RingWatts graphs. I will also link to the manuscript with all the gory details of design and method when that manuscript is finished.
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