Conformist transmission strength is a tunable model parameter.
Evidence
In this model, social learning may be more or less influenced by conformist transmission. The strength of the conformist effect is measured by the parameter … 0, individuals simple perform unbiased imitation; the frequency of a trait does not affect their propensity to acquire that trait. When … 1, individuals are much more likely to select the more frequent of the two behaviors. See the Appendix for the functional form of this relationship. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 46
Categorization
- XREF: Directly the parameter-ized conformist transmission concept the reader is hunting for — the original math behind Henrich’s later popular exposition. — connects to: Conformist transmission means copying the commonest behavior more than its frequency warrants
- QUESTION: The actual technical model lives in the appendix; worth pulling that functional form to anchor the quantitative conditions.