by James Surowiecki
Surowiecki shows that diverse, independent groups often outpredict any single expert. Crowd wisdom works with diversity, independence, and good aggregation, and breaks down without them.
In this collection, The Wisdom of Crowds references 1 other book and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The Selfish Gene.
It’s picked up by More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places and Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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Surowiecki draws on evolutionary theory on how collective intelligence emerges.
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Mauboussin cites Surowiecki's Wisdom of Crowds to explore when aggregated market prices contain genuine information and when they collapse into herding
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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Placesby Michael J. Mauboussin
Kahneman cites James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds when discussing his "decorrelate error" principle. He uses Surowiecki's pennies-in-a-jar example to show how independent judgements average out errors, but only when observers don't influence each other.
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