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John maynard keynes if one asks a large enough number of people to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar, the averaged answer is likely to be very close to the correct number. Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations 42504. No one in this world, so far as i know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few. The wisdom of crowds is an entertaining book making a serious point and by the end of the superb first half the reader has been made to accept that, while with most things, the average is mediocrity, when it comes to decisionmaking the average results in excellence. It is skillful written and enriched with excellent stories. The wisdom of crowds by james surowiecki waterstones. The book relates to diverse collections of independently deciding individuals, rather than crowd. Malcolm gladwell, author of the tipping point most crowds of readers would agree that jim surowiecki is.
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