Table 1.

Inputs used in the performance simulation study.

Input	Values	Notes
Network Size	$N=10,20,50$	Reachability enforced
Degree	$d=5,9$	Minimum degree $d=1$ for all nodes
Self-Weight	$w_{ii}=0.5$	Beta Distribution with $\kappa =\alpha +\beta =4$
Time Steps	$T=2,3,6$	Performance assessed on $t=1,...,20$
Scale	$n=5,7,10,20,30$
Recruitment Probability	$p_r=0.5,1$
Adjacency Matrix	correct, build, remove, complete
Bounded Confidence	$\Delta =0.1,0.5,0.9,1$	$\Delta =1$ equivalent to DeGroot model
Decay	$\lambda =0.1,0.5,0.9,1$	$\lambda =1$ equivalent to DeGroot model