The Smartest People May Not be as Smart as a Crowd‚ but Who can Find a Smart Crowd? In The Wisdom of Crowds‚ author James Surowiecki contends that the “smartest people” are often not as smart as a group of individuals formed under the right circumstances (XIII). Surowiecki backs up his claim by giving numerous real life examples of crowds that meet the criteria of having diversity of opinion‚ independence‚ decentralization and aggregation‚ and have proven to be smarter than almost any one individual
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The epigraph at the beginning of “The Man in the Crowd” brings up the interesting question of what it really means to be alone. While the actual definition of alone is “quite by oneself‚ unaccompanied‚ solitary‚” (“Alone”) the story‚ through the narrator’s thoughts and the observations of the nameless man in the crowd‚ can serve as a different perspective on being alone if applied beyond the situation in the tale. The epigraph says how terrible it is to never be alone‚ and the story serves as a metaphor
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(Psychotherapy & Counselling); PhD Scholar (IIT Bombay) Associate Professor H. K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai © 2014. Prof Roy‚ H.K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai. All Rights Reserved. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS by JAMES SUROWIECKI ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 306 PP | Soft Cover US $ 14.95 2005 Watching the popular game show‚ Kaun Banegaa Crorepati (KBC) hosted by Big B on Sony Entertainment Television‚ I always wondered….. whenever‚ the contestant
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Theories of Crowd Behavior The Contagion Theory * is defined as the theory stating that members of crowds stimulates each other to higher and higher levels of emotions and irrational behavior. * Contagion often refers to the spread of disease from person to person; accordingly it focuses on the spread of emotion in a crowd. * Formulated by Gustave Le Bon. Herbert Blumer-has offered another version of this theory as it has three stages. * Milling- the first stage; people move around
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Crowd is the “Untruth” Over the past two weeks‚ I have been consistently reminded of Kierkegaard’s theory of faith wherein the individual (particular) is higher than the universal (ethical) – of which I have been convinced. This week’s reading supplements this philosophy as it conveys the notion that the “crowd is the untruth”. According to Kierkegaard‚ it is justifiable to deem the crowd as the authority and its judgment as the absolute ruling in politics or similar disciplines; however‚
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front of a big crowd and there is a lot of free space around you‚ so you move forward slightly because hey‚ why not? It’s a free space except that you have just started an Indiana jones’ technique of rolling a heavy bolder of sack. Those standing behind assume that since more space is being created ahead of them‚ they should move too. The whole crowd rolles ahead almost like a massive Persian rug sloping down steep hill… It’s this lack of invisibility that’s also responsible for the crowd stampeding
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How does "The Man of the Crowd" help us to think about the questions of what it means to read something and what it means when something is unreadable? What are the implications for our understanding of city life? “The Man of the Crowd” helps us understand that people can have secrets without sharking those secrets to anyone else. The narrator desperately tried to figure out who this mysterious old man was. The narrator felt like he was able to “read” everyone‚ he felt like he was able to know
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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Far From Heaven Far from Heaven is a film about a 1950s period. It deals with some issues such as race‚ sexuality and class. There is Cathy‚ the perfect mother and wife married to Frank‚ the successful and charming man‚ who works as seals manager in a big company‚ having the perfect life. Until Cathy‚ finds that her husband; Frank is a homosexual. She cannot divorce from her husband because she does not want to destruct her marriage. At the same time‚ she meets with Raymond‚ and she goes
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1) Crowdsourcing is obtaining a needed service from a large group of people‚ in which mainly comes from the online community. With the service coming mainly from the online community the process can happen both on or offline. The idea of crowdsourcing combines the efforts of part time workers and volunteers to gather small portions of information‚ which ultimately adds up to a large result in the end. 2) Disadvantages of crowdsourcing compared to traditional employees would be the reliability of
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