What makes group decisions go wrong and right

Re:What makes group decisions go wrong and right by yboris on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:47PM (#29865583)

Have you read "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki? The book is focused on just the question of what conditions seem to be beneficial/detrimental to sourcing the "wisdom" from crowds.

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Re:What makes group decisions go wrong and right by ghaff on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:17PM (#29865863)

I have although, as I recall, while the book touches on some of the conditions for the wisdom of crowds to work I didn't leave with a strong sense of a definitive list.

However, as noted upthread some of the things would seem to be independent solutions, an ability to meaningfully aggregate those solutions, and some level of expertise in the crowd (i.e. if everyone's just making completely random guesses it won't work).

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Re:What makes group decisions go wrong and right by AlbertCory on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:07PM (#29865778)

I have, not sure about @ghaff but I suspect he has, too.

This "researcher" is attempting to go deeper and quantify it, maybe (I suspect) as a way of devaluing individual thinking.

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