Unlike a standard online experiment, a gaming app lets participants interact freely with a vast number of partners, as many times as they wish. The gain is not merely one of statistical power. Cultural evolutionists can use gaming apps to allow large numbers of participants to communicate synchronously; to build realistic transmission chains that avoid the losses of information that occurs in linear chains; to study the effects of partner choice as well as partner control in social interactions. We are releasing an app designed to take advantage of these opportunities and generate realistic language evolution dynamics.

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哪些智能手机应用程序可能有助于语言进化研究

与标准的在线实验不同，游戏应用程序允许参与者与大量合作伙伴自由互动，次数不限。增益不仅仅是统计能力之一。文化进化论者可以使用游戏应用程序让大量参与者同步交流；建立现实的传输链，避免线性链中发生的信息丢失；研究合作伙伴选择以及合作伙伴控制在社交互动中的影响。我们正在发布一款旨在利用这些机会并生成逼真的语言演变动态的应用程序。