[Wikipedia-l] The Wisdom of Crowds

Wed Jul 7 02:15:12 UTC 2004

I heard this guy on the BBCWS, a few weeks back--interesting stuff; he
goes so far as to suggest that a group will often be smarter than its
smartest member due to the dynamic created, and given a large enough
sampling over a long enough period of time will actually outperform the
best single experts in any given field, or something to that effect.

-- 
Austin D. Hair <austin at austinhair.org>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Callidus
http://www.austinhair.org/
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