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I was very satisfied with The Wisdom of Crowds. Surowiecki’s main hypothesis is that in many situations the answer a crowd arrives at can outperform that of the smartest individual in the group. He gives many interesting examples of this, and of the types of situations where the group doesn’t perform well and why, breaking group interactions into three types: cognition, coordination, and cooperation.

Some of the topics included: the bubble booms of plank roads and bowling alleys, intelligence agencies and 9⁄11, restaurant tipping, television ratings, highway merging, SARS research, Linux, the Columbia explosion, corporate infrastructure, and the biggest most relevant group - democracy in the US.
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