So, while is true the idea that the #masses can make more accurate collective judgments, than expert individuals, remains the fact that: a crowd sometimes can be right and sometimes can be #disastrously wrong. According to Surowiecki (author of the book The Wisdom of Crowds), wise crowds have these key characteristics:
- a #diversity of opinions,
- anyone taking part in the crowd should be able to make their own opinion based on their #individual knowledge,
- you should add #random individuals in a group whose decisions are unrelated to those of the existing members: #independent thinkers plus individuals with views ‘negatively correlated’ or as different as possible from the views of the existing members. Simply put, if you want accuracy in your crowd, then, add those who might #disagree strongly with your group….
- Finally, the crowd should be able to #aggregate their individual opinions into one #collective decision.
https://medium.com/@avocado_2015/emergence-of-crowd-wisdom-and-crowdsourcing-a511c2d1a7bd