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| 0d00539 | Crowdsourcing works on the basis that 'the wisdom of the crowd' is greater than that of an individual, even if that individual is an expert - an idea James Surowiecki devoted a whole book to. Surowiecki's opening example in The Wisdom of Crowds dates back to 1906, when the crowd at a county fair were asked to guess individually the weight of a butchered ox. The average guess was much closer than that of cattle experts. | Jim Boulton |