[Wikipedia-l] The Wisdom of Crowds

[Ralesk Ne'vennoyx]

“The trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots. 
- Paul Ginsparg.”

(as written on imdb.com, by the way)

Austin Hair wrote:
> I heard this guy on the BBCWS, a few weeks back--interesting stuff; he
> goes so far as to suggest that a group will often be smarter than its
> smartest member due to the dynamic created, and given a large enough
> sampling over a long enough period of time will actually outperform the
> best single experts in any given field, or something to that effect.