Crowds Quote by Michael Shermer

“The core idea behind the wisdom of crowds effect is that diverse knowledge and expertise is being collected and aggregated. Essentially, it argues that…

— Rich Jolly

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

— James Surowiecki

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent…

— James Surowiecki

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.

— Robyn Hitchcock

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

— Drew Curtis

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology…

— Gustave Le Bon

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am,…

— Ben Stein

Every one is intelligent at different levels

— Enrique Alcala

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's…

— Jaron Lanier

People are smarter than you might think.

— John Astin

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

— James Surowiecki

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

— James Surowiecki