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In my own words: I am a 33 year old male from Chicago, whose reading interests are mostly in non-fiction.

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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

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

Why The Collective Wisdom of Crowds is Right (Sometimes), June 20, 2004

The interesting thesis of the book, if I understand correctly, is that sometimes the viewpoint of the crowd is better than the opinion of a sole, or a few experts.
For example, the scientist Galton observed, at a fair, that a group of people who guessed the weight of an ox were, when averaged,... Read More

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