Harnessing the wisdom of the inner crowd (2014)
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Abstract
Ever since Galton's classic demonstration of the wisdom of crowds in estimating the weight of a slaughtered ox, scholars of the mind and the public alike have been fascinated by the counterintuitive accuracy achieved by simply averaging a number of people's estimates. Surprisingly, individuals can, to some extent, harness the wisdom of crowds within the confines of their own mind by averaging self-generated, nonredundant estimates.
Bibliographic entry
Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2014). Harnessing the wisdom of the inner crowd. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 504-506. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.009 (Full text)
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Publication year | 2014 | |
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Document type: | Article | |
Publication status: | Published | |
External URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.009 View | |
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Keywords: | crowd withindialectical bootstrappingestimationinner crowdjudgment aggregationjudgments under uncertaintywisdom of crowds |