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James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki

Wrote the financial-page column at The New Yorker from 2000 to 2017. The Wisdom of Crowds (2004) made the case that aggregated group judgement reliably beats expert prediction when independence and diversity are preserved.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

Under the right conditions, crowds make better decisions than experts. The evidence and the conditions.

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