Monday, February 21, 2011

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

1 comment:

Chuck Schallhorn said...

Here is a follow up article on "Big Think" on this issue:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/38679