Sounds like Occupy Santa Fe ..! Not to mention the 4 tools of the Spanish Inquisition.
Actually, I don't know what #5 is. 6. .. Use hand signals? Nick From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Saul Caganoff Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:37 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Wisdom of Crowds - Four elements required to form a wise crowd Interesting....I got these 5 rules from a book called "Honeybee Democracy <http://www.amazon.com/Honeybee-Democracy-Thomas-D-Seeley/dp/0691147213> " which came out of studies of how bee hives make decisions: 1. Compose the decision making of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect. 2. Minimise the leader's influence on group thinking. 3. Seek diverse solutions to the problem. 4. Aggregate the group's knowledge through debate. 5. Use quorum responses for cohesion, accuracy and speed. Regards, Saul On 3 March 2012 15:59, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: At Friam today we discussed the Wisdom of Crowds book, and I mentioned the 4 requirements for a crowd to be wise. Here's the story from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Four_elements_required_to_ form_a_wise_crowd -- Owen According to Surowiecki, these key criteria separate wise crowds from irrational ones: Criteria Description Diversity of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion> opinion Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts. Independence People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them. Decentralization People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge. Aggregation Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a collective <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making> decision. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect Mobile: +61 410 430 809 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff
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