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Collective wisdom and the Internet seem to be a marriage made in heaven -- a no brainer -- yet why hasn't this marriage taken place? Why hasn't there been any serious effort to develop web functionalities that would allow deliberative decision-making to take place online, liberating the wisdom of the crowd from the tyranny of distance?I wonder, has anyone even seen Robert's Rules of Order adopted for an online deliberative meeting to be held? I haven't. Why not?ex animodavidfarrar   
Posted by davidfarrar November 9, 2007, 2:02 PM  comments (2)

Determining market trends and consumer preferences.   
Posted by Lindsay November 18, 2005, 1:53 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom is a form of synergy, when the total outcome together is greater than the outcome of individuals. I think it works well in decisions concerning consensus of the masses. Also anything numerical that you can average can be solved with collective wisdom. There also has to be a large sample to draw from in order for the results to come out relatively correct.   
Posted by lyzzpeterson November 29, 2005, 3:09 PM  comments (0)

I think that collective wisdom would tend to work well when determining what would or would not be good for the common good. When voting, the hope is that collective wisdom will bring the best possible solution.   
Posted by Stephanie November 18, 2005, 3:02 PM  comments (0)

While I believe that collective wisdom can be good at discovering most things, I recognize that the majority often overlooks the minority, and more than not the minority is actually right.   
Posted by Marissa November 21, 2005, 12:27 AM  comments (0)

Estimating American's opinion and support for an upcoming invasion / war.   
Posted by mnschuck November 18, 2005, 12:20 PM  comments (0)

Predicting the slate of Presidential candidates.   
Posted by Gilbert Bateson October 25, 2005, 8:35 AM  comments (0)

I feel that collective wisdom would work well in many different situations if the sample size is large enough to represent the population of choice.   
Posted by john nguyen November 28, 2005, 9:01 PM  comments (0)

Marketing seems to rely on collective wisdom a lot. Samples are taken to see what people think so that predictions can be made. When brainstorming ideas a group tends to think of more things than an individual because they feed off of each other. Juries seem to use collective wisdom as well. I think it would work well in any situation you are trying to eliminate a bias.   
Posted by TracieNaka November 29, 2005, 3:25 PM  comments (0)

I have several ideas on this matter:1) Collective judgements among the nation's college football fans would serve as a far better means of determining who plays in the national championship game than the BCS will ever do.2) Collective judgements of the nation would be a good way to elect a new president without having to mess with electoral votes.   
Posted by Jeremy Leever November 22, 2005, 10:15 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom work well in many situations especially for those decisions that require thinking outside the box. The more minds thinking of creative ideas the better the outcome.   
Posted by Kari Hicks November 22, 2005, 2:57 PM  comments (0)

I believe that collective wisdom could work in many situations. I have actually heard this before with the example of guessing how many jelly beans are in the jar. Another way that this could be productive could be in test taking or business meetings-groups tend to balance each other out.   
Posted by Liz_Trudg November 29, 2005, 8:24 AM  comments (0)

I think it can work well with most topics although I believe there are times where the majority of the people may be wrong. Because of this, I think its really necessary to discuss all sides of the spectrum and discuss why it is that people feel a certain way about certain issues/topics.   
Posted by jessicatakeuchi November 21, 2005, 1:54 AM  comments (0)

Collective Wisdom has the potential to be very practical in decision making situations as long as all members contribute in accordance with their personal strengths. This allocation of skill will lead to a more complete final product. Furthermore, minority parties must also be considered in the decision making process in order to have fair allocation of the benefits of a resource or product. By developing diverse groups, companies will most likely see a large impact on their success   
Posted by Android December 6, 2005, 3:01 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom is everywehere. In the food we eat, in the cars we drive. no single man has created anything alone-we all rely on others ideas to spark and guide our ways.   
Posted by mmcnally November 30, 2005, 5:09 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom could show companies whether or not their products will be taken by the market.   
Posted by Camille November 20, 2005, 6:16 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom would work best in almost any area where you have a really large sample size. This way, it would account for all the outlier responses that would typically throw off the result.   
Posted by SLOchic84 November 28, 2005, 6:56 PM  comments (0)

For collective wisdom to work the best I think the question should have an answer that can be averaged. Anything with numbers would probably be the best. When you allow a crown to simply blurt out ideas about a topic it is hard to pool the responses into one concise idea.   
Posted by cjsnyder November 23, 2005, 6:48 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom does work well in many Fields. Thus including school work, projects, and creative purposes(musical groups, orchestras, plays).It proven that in testing situations the group will always out perform the individual. The main purpose of our election process is that it represents the wants and desires of the American public, who are the heart of this country. Many businesses apply Six Sigma for Quality control, using peoples skills form different Fields to solve a problem.   
Posted by Erin Deady November 28, 2005, 1:44 PM  comments (0)

As long as the majority of people are well informed I think this is true. I think collective wisdom works well for trivial information.   
Posted by Shane November 28, 2005, 7:41 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom would work well with gambling, in communal environments,....ummm, now that I think about it, when would it NOT be beneficial? Two heads are better than one I say. Why not gather info/thoughts/views from others to create a conclusion?   
Posted by B. Todesco November 25, 2005, 10:14 AM  comments (0)

Besides the bad parts of group think, i believe that this idea could work and more can be accomplished if we put our heads together and work towards a common goal.   
Posted by PCarney November 28, 2005, 9:23 PM  comments (0)

i feel collective wisdom can be done in anything. There is more ways than one in doing anything. Someone will always find a way to figure out the process, idea, question, or the needed strategy in solving it. If everyone is cooperative, then it can work to its advantage. If there are non-participants or those that disagree, it may hinder the full potential of the solution/idea/process. working together can have its advantage and disadvantages. It is a tricky process, convincing the majority   
Posted by meynardM13 November 29, 2005, 1:49 PM  comments (0)

I think that most of the time collective wisdom does work better. In cases of school, I believe that is the reason why the Business school pushed for so many group projects. Of course Cal Poly does this because it is what the business world is doing much more of. There are also time when collective wisdom is not beneficial. When there is not a leader or perhaps one that is working towards a different goal.   
Posted by Quinn November 25, 2005, 3:22 PM  comments (0)

I think collective wisdom is empowering to all people involved. It is truely recognizable when people move from being independent to interdependent.   
Posted by Tamra November 29, 2005, 8:23 AM  comments (0)

As the saying goes, two heads are better than one. Having a group of ideas allows for thoughts to be conveyed from different view points. Everyone has certain strengths in terms of knowledge and by pulling together all those strengths a group can come up with a better answer than if they were to do it individually.   
Posted by slobum November 27, 2005, 12:36 AM  comments (0)

Predicting how businesses/brands in the consumer sector will perform, since it is readily applicable to the everyday consumer and their opinions about brands.   
Posted by smittey21 November 19, 2005, 5:11 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom would work well in many situations. One that sticks out is the hiring process. I don't think that one person can solely decide if a person is a good candidate for a position. I think that it takes the knowledge and opinions of a group to make a complete and more accurate choice since a company is made up of so many different types of people   
Posted by Scoobs November 28, 2005, 12:04 AM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom works well in nearly all situations, especially ones that involve creativity. Marketing strategies and advertising concepts are best when a group of individuals get together and "bounce ideas off one another". It is amazing how one person's insight can spark an additional idea and how the idea grows with input from different perspectives.   
Posted by KZee November 23, 2005, 10:27 PM  comments (0)

Determining which applicant would be the best for a company position. If multiple employees work together to form a decision about the best fit, the chances are greater that the employee will be successful once they physically start working.   
Posted by Molly November 18, 2005, 11:29 AM  comments (0)

i think as long as you gather a large enough sample size, collective wisdom can be a very successful tool in many cases. granted i feel it can still be risky as you may get outliers that flaw the results do to people being unaware of the topic   
Posted by jmende November 28, 2005, 3:27 PM  comments (0)

First of all, I believe collective wisdom can be used with any kind of quantity guesses. When it comes to R&D I believe it can be extremely useful for improving already existing inventions. But for inventing completely new breakthrough concepts, such as the theory of relativity, it takes the mind of a single genius, as history proved. After all, it is called the Pythagorean theorem, not the "theorem of Pythagoras and twenty other Greek mathematicians". :-)   
Posted by MFleermann November 29, 2005, 12:05 PM  comments (0)

There are many instances in which collective wisdom works very well, in fact I think it helps in most decision-making instances if done correctly. To be correctly implemented the sample size and demographic must be representative of the population of interest. The livestock sample was a numerical average of total responses, which means there were probably extremes in both directions around the final number. With subjective analysis, the mode of responses would be a more meaningful value.   
Posted by MarissaAngel November 28, 2005, 5:24 PM  comments (0)

I think collective wisdom would work well in an university environment; especially when classes are oriented around team specific projects   
Posted by markus willard November 28, 2005, 5:12 PM  comments (0)

Collective Situations are important in any situation. Business life would be the most effected. It is a great way to market your product and increase the businesses profit.   
Posted by jennywessertr4-6 November 20, 2005, 11:59 AM  comments (0)

I think that collective wisdom works well for anything that involves guessing. I think that this is the reason for voting as well, getting as many people together to try and determine the best idea or best person for a job.   
Posted by tcountry November 29, 2005, 12:03 PM  comments (0)

Any area where a collective desision would be beneficial. Whenever there's a decsion based from a collective group you have a better chance of the decision being better thought out and more chance for it to be correct/beneficial.   
Posted by Jeff P December 7, 2005, 11:04 PM  comments (0)

collective wisdom can be good in almost any situation where when the group guessing is made up of a large mixed group of people.   
Posted by tbly November 28, 2005, 8:43 PM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom would be helpful in determining if a product or employee would be beneficial to the overall success of the company. It would save a lot of time and money as well.   
Posted by Teo November 19, 2005, 9:23 PM  comments (0)

Determining the actual release date of a software product. By collecting estimations from all parties (management, qa, dev, project managers, etc.) in private so that no one appears unloyal to the stated schedule.   
Posted by Nada November 16, 2005, 8:09 PM  comments (0)

Predicting the rise and fall of specific business sectors.   
Posted by Gilbert Bateson October 25, 2005, 8:33 AM  comments (0)

Estimating the rise and fall of prices for basic products such as gasoline.   
Posted by Gilbert Bateson October 25, 2005, 8:36 AM  comments (0)

I think collective work tends to work well in athletics and theatre.   
Posted by Doug E Fresh November 21, 2005, 5:15 PM  comments (0)

Why is the Wikipedia so poor with regard to content accuracy given that 'anyone' can post there?   
Posted by Illumnati October 27, 2005, 10:31 AM  comments (0)

Collective wisdom is a very hit and miss way of offering a guess. Sometimes the group can agree and sometimes the group just goes in totally different directions..   
Posted by madanky December 7, 2005, 2:28 PM  comments (0)