The Wisdom of Crowds

House, Season 6, Episode 2--the one where there is a rich video-game entrepreneur who becomes ill and seeks out the "wisdom of crowds" while the team attempts to diagnose him without House (who has just recently come back from a psychiatric institution and is no longer practicing medicine).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/

A blog with more details about how this can be used within the context of a psych or stats class.


A counter view on the idea--is there a crowd???




posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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