Wise crowd: Difference between revisions
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Instead, Surowiecki's "Wise crowds" are described as having (1) diversity of opinion; (2) independence of members from one another; (3) decentralization; and (4) a good method for aggregating opinions. (four points quoted from Amazon.com's review)." - [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-July/015957.html] | Instead, Surowiecki's "Wise crowds" are described as having (1) diversity of opinion; (2) independence of members from one another; (3) decentralization; and (4) a good method for aggregating opinions. (four points quoted from Amazon.com's review)." - [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-July/015957.html] | ||
[[Till Westermayer]] [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-July/015966.html correctly points out that this ideology is wrong]: "everything I know from studying psychology hints in the other | |||
direction (okay, depending on the task). But especially for cognitive | |||
taks, the performance of the group is (1) mostly worse than that of the | |||
best group member, if they act single, and (2), there is [[Groupthink]] | |||
(or maybe [[Group think]]), the phenomen that group disciplina and | |||
dynamics led to hindrances for new ideas in groups." | |||