Table 1.

Frequencies of various consensus choices in 250 replications of the simulations.

		high individual reliability (σ=0.2)		low individual reliability (σ=1)
		strong consensus criterion	weak consensus criterion	strong consensus criterion	weak consensus criterion
high interdependence (λ=0.8)	1st best site	246 (98.4%)	250 (100%)	199 (79.6%)	237 (94.8%)
	2nd best site	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	5 (2%)	12 (4.8%)
	3rd best site	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	none	4 (1.6%)	0 (0%)	46 (18.4%)	1 (0.4%)
medium interdependence (λ=0.5)	1st best site	104 (41.6%)	226 (90.4%)	94 (37.6%)	220 (88%)
	2nd best site	0 (0%)	22 (8.8%)	1 (0.4%)	28 (11.2%)
	3rd best site	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	none	146 (58.4%)	2 (0.8%)	155 (62%)	2 (0.8%)
low interdependence (λ=0.2)	1st best site	11 (4.4%)	176 (70.4%)	7 (2.8%)	190 (76%)
	2nd best site	1 (0.4%)	63 (25.2%)	0 (0%)	58 (23.2%)
	3rd best site	0 (0%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	none	238 (95.2%)	10 (4%)	243 (97.2%)	2 (0.8%)