Pith Number

pith:SMASI2JB

pith:2017:SMASI2JBLJ4J2TJAOQCN2NNWAH

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Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds

Bahador Bahrami, Gerry Garbulsky, Joaquin Navajas, Mariano Sigman, Tamara Niella

arxiv:1703.00045 v3 · 2017-02-28 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMASI2JBLJ4J2TJAOQCN2NNWAH}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:22.286199Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93012469215a789d4d207404dd35b601f7a9f73841dec28d05fdb01a72ca408d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00045 · arxiv_version: 1703.00045v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00045 · pith_short_12: SMASI2JBLJ4J · pith_short_16: SMASI2JBLJ4J2TJA · pith_short_8: SMASI2JB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SMASI2JBLJ4J2TJAOQCN2NNWAH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 93012469215a789d4d207404dd35b601f7a9f73841dec28d05fdb01a72ca408d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90d70a6849fa3e2900ebe58fb882cc93d4edd67512d57358362424adb901b410",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-28T20:35:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ade22687ce5304aadb4954dcb58959f6a8befa0f2acb8fcfc0fbe0dc2dcab44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}