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上期划线句答案
Thoreau criticized society’s tendency to devalue complex ideas and considered it to be part of the overall decline of the human mind and intelligence.
梭罗批评社会降低复杂思想价值的趋势，并认为这是人类心理和智力整体衰退的表现之一。
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双语阅读
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Many key aspects of success in social and economic systems stem from collective dynamics: millions of interconnected consumers determine the success of songs, books, and businesses; citizens’ decisions collectively determine the prevalence of socially beneficial behaviors; online users’ sharing choices drive the virality of content; networks of employees and recruiters influence the success of job seekers; and the interactions among team members shape a team’s success and failure in executing complex tasks. In all these cases, whether involving an idea, product, behavior, individual, or team, success is not an isolated event; rather, it is the result of the choices and actions by interconnected actors at different scales.
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The deluge of big data capturing individual behavior and successes offers new opportunities to explore quantitative patterns governing the collective dynamics behind success. These opportunities have stimulated the emergence of a multidisciplinary community of scientists who are united in their quest to understand the complex dynamics behind success across diverse socioeconomic systems, asking a wide range of fascinating questions. For example, what makes online content go viral? Why is there such persistence of misinformation on social media? How soon can we tell if a new idea or product has sparked serious interest? When do scientists or artists do their greatest work?
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Addressing these questions allows researchers to uncover empirical regularities that govern the collective dynamics behind success, identify mechanisms responsible for these patterns, and reveal predictive signals that hold practical implications. By combining diverse approaches, results from this research program can lead–and, in several cases, have led–to qualitative shifts in the way that new ideas are discovered, talents are identified and nurtured, excellence is recognized and rewarded, and failure is avoided and exploited. Here, we review recent progress in this transdisciplinary research agenda.
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Many of these questions have been explored in the psychology, sociology, and management literature for decades. Research in psychology, for example, has examined the lifecycles of prominent artists and scientists and has investigated the various drivers of individual success as well as team performance. Sociologists and management scholars have extensively studied the importance of various structural forces that shape career success and the proliferation of new products and behaviors. This review builds on these foundational streams of research while highlighting recent studies that diverge from traditional approaches by combining quantitative methods with large-scale datasets drawn from real-world observations and experiments.
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As a result, in addition to revealing generalizable regularities and predictive signals, these efforts have validated long-standing theories at scale, delimited their boundaries to validity more accurately, and inspired the development of new theories. Further, rapid advances in fields such as complexity science, network science, artificial intelligence, econometrics, and experimental sociology have provided powerful empirical tools and methodologies, offering deeper insights into the collective dynamics behind success.
本文节选自：Nature（自然）
发布时间：2024.12.9
作者：Manuel S. Mariani, Federico Battiston, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, Giacomo Livan, Federico Musciotto & Dashun Wang
原文标题：Collective dynamics behind success
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写作句总结
原句：The deluge of big data capturing individual behavior and successes offers new opportunities to explore quantitative patterns governing the collective dynamics behind success.
结构：The n[state] of X offers new opportunities to explore Y governing Z.
例句：The growth of social media platforms offers new opportunities to explore trends governing public opinion.
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阅读理解题
What is the primary focus of the research program discussed in the provided text?
A. To analyze the historical context of success in psychology, sociology, and management.
B. To investigate how individual decisions and actions impact team success in complex tasks.
C. To apply quantitative methods and big data to understand the collective dynamics behind success in various socio-economic systems.
D. To determine how success is measured in different academic disciplines.
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全文概括
This research review explores the collective dynamics driving success across diverse socioeconomic systems. It examines how interconnected actors' choices shape outcomes, from the virality of online content to the success of businesses and individuals. The review highlights the use of big data and quantitative methods to uncover patterns and predictive signals of success. Building upon existing psychological, sociological, and management research, it emphasizes recent studies employing large-scale datasets and advanced methodologies from fields like complexity science and AI. This approach aims to reveal generalizable regularities, refine existing theories, and inspire the development of new ones.
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