paper · Kevin J. S. Zollman · tradition: network-epistemology

Formal models showing that denser communication among inquirers can lower a community’s accuracy (the Zollman effect); with “The Epistemic Benefit of Transient Diversity” (Erkenntnis, 2010) on why premature consensus hurts.

The book’s stance. Bears on Chapter 9’s Zollman effect (currently cited only via O’Connor & Weatherall) and integration-needs-agent-and-infrastructure. Supports: the primary source for a load-bearing borrowed result. Quote-backed supports/pressureTests edges pending extraction of the source PDF.

Availability. Cited by reference; no local copy held in the repo.