Increased initial task difficulty drives social foragers to develop sub-optimal conformity instead of adaptive diversity.

During sessions 5–6, the preference for the demonstrated over the alternative rewarding cue was nearly significant (Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, n = 19, p = 0.059), and as mentioned earlier ( figure 2 and above), it was clearly significant by the last two sessions of the experiments.

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