Crowd Wisdom Quotes

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.

The future belongs to crowds.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

The public is never wrong.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

The public is always right.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Public opinion is not always mistaken; sometimes even it chooses the right man.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute.

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The old saying of ‘Vox populi, vox Dei’, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

“The Wisdom of Crowds” suggests that if enough bumbling people act in concert, they’ll find their way to a less bumbling place.

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.