Talk:The Wisdom of Crowds

Related books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unconquerable_World

Jonathan Schells book subtitled 'Power, non-violence and the will of the people' take this into the political realm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Szczels (talk • contribs) 20:32, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

The Theory of Communicative Action by Jurgen Habermas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Action —Preceding unsigned comment added by Szczels (talk • contribs) 20:40, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

WOC is now a term as well as a book
The book's title has become a term used by people commentating on the internet. It has become a catchphrase just as was explained above in Talk:The_Wisdom_of_Crowds (by Anon) on 18 March 2007. Since this article was conceived, the term "Wisdom of Crowds" is used articles on the culture & business of the internet, any easy adaption from the "wisdom of the crowd" so that people not in-the-know will still understand the sense of its use. Now all I have to do is find a couple of good examples of the uses of this term. And perhaps start a list of "Book titles which have entered the English language". - Permacultura (talk) 13:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

suggested improvements
Can I suggest that this article could be improved by having a couple of examples of the wisdom of crowds taken from the book. The lead cites the example of the average guesses for the weight of steer being more accurate than any single guess, but 1) this is not mentioned in the body of the article which contravenes Wikipeda policy that says the lead should summarise things already in the article, and 2) the single example could profitably be expanded to include up to three others. Given that much of the article is currently why other folks disagree with the basic concept some examples of it at work should help add some balance to the article.  Cottonshirt  τ   05:16, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Stupidity of crowd
Just curious I browsed the Net with these keywords "stupidity of crowd". It appears that the "wisdom of crowds" is highly controversial. See for example this Ph. D. thesis: Ryan, Scott. ‘Wisdom of Crowds: Tests of the Theory of Collective Accuracy’. Phdthesis, University of Connecticut, 2010.

In its conclusion: "Collectives can be very accurate, but the current experiments indicate that this accuracy may only occur when individuals in the collective all have very similar knowledge. Such a situation may be the exception in practice, indicating that high collective accuracy may be a rare phenomenon. A small set of knowledgeable experts will often be more accurate than a large collective of individuals."

So, wouldn't be useful (and fair!) to add the references of such works that criticize the "wisdom of crowds"? 78.229.106.132 (talk) 21:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)