In networks where information is compartmentalized, agents who are ignorant of evidence against a hypothesis are likely to continue pursuing it, which increases the number of alternative hypotheses pursued and reduces the chance of hypotheses being rejected too early.

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  Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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Referenced by nodes (3)

• evidence concept
• networks concept
• Hypothesis concept