from Razinha

Excellent book, but then it fits with a confirmation bias and I was primed for it, as I do this all the time in my design meetings - I like to fill the room with brains, because while I have great confidence in my own judgment, I know my limitations and I always get the best answers from groups.T...

from mikevk

Entertaining discussion of how under the right conditions - "diversity, independence, and decentralization" - groups make better decisions that individuals. A classic example is Francis Galton's account of a crowd guessing the weight of an ox: The average of all the guesses was within one pound o...

from Niecierpek

The thesis of this book is that groups possess collective intelligence and are surprisingly wise under the right circumstances, even when they are composed by and large of very mediocre ndividuals. It was very interesting to read it after _GG&S_. First, it confirms that big groups of people are n...

from PointedPundit

A Counter-Intuitive Notion In 1906, Francis Galton, known for his work on statistics and heredity, came across a weight-judging contest at the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition. This encounter was to challenge the foundations of his life's study. An ox was on display and for six-pe...

from paulsignorelli

It's difficult to read anything written on the topic of collaboration and community in the past few years without coming across references to James Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds"--and for good reason. The book, as he writes in his acknowledgments, "is partly about the difference between a so...