Journal on Policy and Complex Systems
Figure 9 . The amplitude of opinion volatility across democratic and anti-democratic networks .
and high average degree show the lowest frequency of volatility in the range measured . Here networks remain much in the same proportions of opinions despite small random changes in individual beliefs . The frequency of volatility increases as one move to networks in the upper right that are anti-democratic in having high preferential attachment and low degree . Here the devil is in the details , however , including details that we cannot claim to fully understand . The point with the highest frequency is that in which extremely low degree correlates with a preferential attachment exponent between 1 and 2 ; higher preferential attachment actually dissipates the result . The core tendency , however ,
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