Divergence: A Generative Friendship of Otherness

[noticed at TheyBlinked]

on that note [also from TheyBlinked]:

If four basic conditions are met, a crowd's "collective intelligence" will produce better outcomes than a small group of experts, Surowiecki says, even if members of the crowd don't know all the facts or choose, individually, to act irrationally. "Wise crowds" need (1) diversity of opinion; (2) independence of members from one another; (3) decentralization; and (4) a good method for aggregating opinions.

---quoted from Publisher's Weekly by Biz Stone about this book