Yixi Jiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5729040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yixi Jiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yixi |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiang |
| SIGNATURE | JIANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coursera |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Correlation Neglect on Social Media: Effects on Civil Service Applications in China
Social media, on which signals are often correlated, has become a primary source of information. How do people form beliefs when reading correlated signals online? In a field experiment on Weibo, we exposed Chinese college students to redundant negative posts about civil service jobs. Consequently, students developed a 0.16-standard-deviation higher negative view of these jobs and were 11% less likely to register for civil service exams, compared…
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Correlation Neglect on Social Media: Effects on Civil Service Applications in China
Social media, on which signals are often correlated, has become a primary source of information. How do people form beliefs when reading correlated signals online? In a field experiment on Weibo, we exposed Chinese college students to redundant negative posts about civil service jobs. Consequently, students developed a 0.16-standard-deviation higher negative view of these jobs and were 11% less likely to register for civil service exams, compared…
China (1 works) · Civil service (1 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 works) · Correlation (1 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Mathematics (1 works) · Neglect (1 works) · Political science (1 works)