http://richardshow.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/wisdom-of-the-crowds/ http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:10:24 +0000 Richard http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/wisdom-of-the-crowds/ Our theme for this week is virtual communities/crowds/mobs. As far as the crowds, I saw an excellent talk at the 2006 SXSW interactive conference given by James Surowiecki. This whole 1 hour talk is on line on the sxsw site. The talk is loaded with many examples that support his ideas, and theories/research from a number of sources. If we accept these things, the most important question becomes: what factors are important in determining when “crowd wisdom” will be more accurate than expert wisdom, so I made a seven minute clip, from different places in his talk, that focus on these important factors: objective aggregation (my term), diversity, independence.

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