Table 1. The effect of social learning and exploration on whether the contestants ever took the lead or not.

Results from GLMM: LeadingContestant ~ MeanScoreDifference + MeanLeaderSimilarity + RangeLeaderSimilarity + (1|Contest). Predictors are standardized—similarity ranges theoretically between 0 and 1 and score difference between −1 and 1.

Fixed effects	Estimate	SE	z value	95% confidence interval
(Intercept)	−4.919	0.342	−14.37	−5.622 to −4.275
Mean score difference	2.752	0.893	3.08	1.096–4.621
Mean leader similarity	3.488	0.34	10.24	2.844–4.182
Range leader similarity	3.907	0.215	18.14	3.498–4.344