Infotopia¶
Sunstein, C. R. (2006). Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford University Press.
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Primes¶
- Wisdom of the Crowds
- The prime makes explicit that the accuracy gain comes from error cancellation under independence, which is exactly why correlated inputs (herding, groupthink, information cascades) destroy the benefit, a failure mode that is invisible if one only counts contributors.
This sourceAnalyzes how information aggregation succeeds and fails, detailing how herding, informational cascades, and group polarization correlate inputs and destroy the wisdom-of-crowds benefit that independence supplies.
- The prime makes explicit that the accuracy gain comes from error cancellation under independence, which is exactly why correlated inputs (herding, groupthink, information cascades) destroy the benefit, a failure mode that is invisible if one only counts contributors.
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