For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
People are smarter than you might think.
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.