Comments on: Become a part of the Wisdom of Crowds http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 19 May 2013 19:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stex52 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-277389 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:48:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=134531#comment-277389 “circa about”. There’s a nice little redundancy. Proof read!!

]]> By: stex52 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-277387 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:47:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=134531#comment-277387 Is this close to the old Pentagon idea of forming a futures market around where we go to war next (circa about 2003)?

]]> By: qcubed3 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-277363 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:00:12 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=134531#comment-277363 The wisdom of crowds works great when trying to determine the number of marbles in a jar, or the number of marbles in a can, or even the number of marbles in some sort of bin. So, extrapolating the power of crowds to determine the number of marbles in places to the real world, the wisdom of crowds is the greatest force in the universe . . . for counting spherical objects in containers.

]]> By: stex52 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-277264 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:56:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=134531#comment-277264 Any good financial bubble of the last 400 years would also suffice as an example.

Lynch mobs do add a certain extra horror to it, though.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/become-a-part-of-the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-277261 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:49:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=134531#comment-277261 Ah. For my money the best read on the “wisdom of crowds” is still The Ox-Bow Incident. Spike Lee’s twitter of the wrong Zimmerman family’s address runs it a close second.

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