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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."
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