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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Which makes it suitable for picking the contestants on > American Idol but probably not for picking tools to > use in surgery. > > The problem of the 'wisdom of crowds' is knowing > 'crowds of what?' in advance of applying the wisdom. > One of the revelations of Wikipedia is that crowds are pretty effective at self-selecting and self-policing. A random crowd would not be effective at picking surgical tools. A self-selected group of people interested enough in surgical tools to participate in a discussion of surgical tools likely would be; and in fact probably would do better than any one individual would, no matter well educated and credentialed. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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