Comments on: Diversity, Aggregation, Incentives http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/11/02/diversity-aggregation-incentives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diversity-aggregation-incentives Adam Singer on digital marketing and online PR Fri, 17 May 2013 23:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Wanczakhttp://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/11/02/diversity-aggregation-incentives/#comment-27025 Mark Wanczak Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:22:13 +0000 http://thefuturebuzz.com/?p=5601#comment-27025 Mauboussin’s take on the reliability of crowds over individuals can be traced back to the 19th century and Francis Galton, who discovered the same thing while at a county fair.

For more on that theory, you may want to check out “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations” by James Surowiecki.

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