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On an effective and efficient method for exploiting the wisdom of the inner crowd

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Researchers have shown that even an individual can produce the wisdom of the crowds, called “the wisdom of the inner crowd.” However, the previous methods leave room for improvements in terms of efficacy and response time.
Itsuki Fujisaki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bayesian decision making in human collectives with binary choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Here we focus on the description of the mechanisms behind the process of information aggregation and decision making, a basic step to understand emergent phenomena in society, such as trends, information spreading or the wisdom of crowds.
Eguíluz, Víctor M.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Agent-Based Modeling of a Self-Organized Food Safety System

open access: yesSafety, 2019
“The wisdom of crowds” is often observed in social discourses and activities around us. The manifestations of it are, however, so intrinsically embedded and behaviorally accepted that an elaboration of a social phenomenon evidencing such ...
Kashif Zia, Umar Farooq, Arshad Muhammad
doaj   +1 more source

Social Order and Practical Wisdom of Walking in a Crowd [PDF]

open access: yesСоциологический журнал, 2018
The article suggests returning to the “crowd” as an object of sociological analysis. Crowds have attracted early sociologists because crowds were visual embodiments of social forces that surpass individuals and also served as a symbol of the profound ...
Andrei M. Korbut
doaj   +1 more source

When is a crowd wise?

open access: yes, 2014
Numerous studies and anecdotes demonstrate the "wisdom of the crowd," the surprising accuracy of a group's aggregated judgments. Less is known, however, about the generality of crowd wisdom.
Broomell, Stephen   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Thin-Slice Accuracy Depends on the Wisdom of Crowds: Aggregate Judgments Outperform Individual Judgments when Inferring Athletic Performance Based on Nonverbal Behavior

open access: yesJournal of nonverbal behavior
The present paper aims to resolve ambiguous findings on the accuracy or inaccuracy of human judgments based on sparse information by arguing that accurate thin-slice judgments can be understood as driven by the wisdom of the crowd.
P. Furley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wisdom of the crowd

open access: yesInternational Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology, 2017
The wisdom of the crowd assumes that a crowd or group of people is remarkably more intelligent and smarter than the smartest individual among them. This operates in the world in many different guises. The wisdom-of-crowd phenomenon has been replicated across a number of disciplines.
Sapir, Liel, Harries, Daniel
openaire   +2 more sources

Regrets, learning and wisdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This contribution discusses in what respect Econophysics may be able to contribute to the rebuilding of economics theory. It focuses on aggregation, individual vs collective learning and functional wisdom of the crowds.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure. Opinion
Challet, Damien
core   +3 more sources

Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Crowds: A Student Project

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2014
Students examined the question of whether the 'wisdom of experts' or 'the wisdom of crowds' is more reliable and useful in a writing course by engaging in a parallel Wikipedia project.
Greg Barnhisel, Marcia Rapchak
doaj   +1 more source

Compromising improves forecasting

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2023
Predicting the future can bring enormous advantages. Across the ages, reliance on supernatural foreseeing was substituted by the opinion of expert forecasters, and now by collective intelligence approaches which draw on many non-expert forecasters.
Dardo N. Ferreiro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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