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Wisdom of crowds

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Peter Senge

BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd. The False Wisdom of Crowds. If you had a choice of flying from Boston to San Diego in a plane piloted by a single machine or the combined intelligence of 3,000 people, which would you choose?

The False Wisdom of Crowds

Perhaps you would want more information before making that decision. If the machine piloting the aircraft was a well-designed piece of equipment that had been used as an autopilot for thousands of successful flights, and the 3,000 people were of average intelligence living in the Midwest, which would you choose? What if the 3,000 people consisted of the combined intelligence of the best airline pilots in the aviation industry?