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Table 1 Comparison between observed and expected adoptions via hiring for each research topic

From: Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas

topic X

\(f_{\mathrm{obs}}\)

\(f_{\mathrm{exp}}\)

p

topic modeling

0.35

0.23

0.01 ± 0.01

incremental computing

0.39

0.20

0.01 ± 0.01

deep learning

0.35

0.34

0.34 ± 0.01

quantum computing

0.32

0.22

0.01 ± 0.01

mechanism design

0.48

0.21

0.01 ± 0.01