http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/ A science salon hosted by National Geographic Magazine Sun, 19 May 2013 07:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-47766 abdul hasan Sun, 05 May 2013 05:00:29 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-47766 There is something to this. A community has common unity

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-40016 DList Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:42:08 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-40016 Interesting. Just the opposite of humans, generally speaking LOL. Although there is a great book called “The Wisdom of Crowds”.

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39812 Dawid Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:48:18 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39812 Wisdom of crowds is an incredibly powerful principle. I just wrote this blog for the finance sector where I am applying it to solve a hard question: http://bit.ly/11rK0du

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39709 Dabbe Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:47:28 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39709 Human culture explained..
I like it!

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39702 JMW Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:10:27 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39702 One wonders if this could be a clue to mass whale strandings

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39701 Marsha Brown Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:01:22 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39701 Interesting comments too (I really just want on a mailing list.)

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39699 Andrew Wilson Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:13:31 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39699 This counts as embodied cognition, too! There’s a ‘cognitive’ task (gradient following) being solved by a distributed system following simple rules. There’s no central representation or implementation of anything about the location of darkness, but orienting behaviour emerges in real time from the action of the broader system. I like it!

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39679 Nisha Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:24:24 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39679 Makes me wonder about the effects of over population. Would there be a critical number at which everything collapses again?

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39653 W.Benson Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:52:02 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39653 Regarding Francis Galton, his 1907 study was based on sweepstakes tickets from a stock show at Plymouth, England and attended by the general public. Galton copied the submitted weight estimates from bets on the weight of an ox after dressing. The median, not average, estimate came within 9 pounds of the correct value! Although Galton presented his results as a defense of democracy, the Voz Populi, many practical decisions are too ideology (and emotion) laden to be resolved by a simple vote. How many lynchings bear the mark of popular will? When it is weight of an ox or the direction home (e.g., a homing pigeon), opinion averaging seems to work.

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/the-real-wisdom-of-the-crowds/#comment-39573 Danielle Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:43:53 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=151391#comment-39573 so this is why tours are so successful?

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