[Wikipedia-l] The Wisdom of Crowds

Wed Jul 7 11:57:12 UTC 2004

"We are the wikipedians. Resistance is futile." ;-)

Austin Hair wrote:

>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.
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