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Category Archives: Crowds
Safecast Draws on Power of the Crowd to Map Japan’s Radiation
Eight months after a tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan, ordinary people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find radiation hotspots. NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports from Japan. Wherever they go, they draw a … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Crowdsourcing describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe reveals that the crowd is more than wise—it’s talented, creative, and stunningly productive. … Continue reading
Wisdom about crowds
Read To model the behaviour of humans en masse, treat them as people, not molecules. The behaviour of crowds is sometimes unpredictable and occasionally deadly, but there is good reason to believe it is governed by simple rules. Presumably, like … Continue reading
How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect
Read Social groups can be remarkably smart and knowledgeable when their averaged judgements are compared with the judgements of individuals. Already Galton found evidence that the median estimate of a group can be more accurate than estimates of experts. This … Continue reading
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Read Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication … Continue reading
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, Surowiecki argues that “under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.” To support … Continue reading
The Crowds – A Study of the Popular Mind
Read Read also – The Psychology of Revolution The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of … Continue reading
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