James Surowiecki Quotes About Being Smart

• 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

  Smart, Thinking, Way

  "Digital Transformation - Part II: Collective Intelligence Is the Game Changer" by Rod Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2017.

• For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

  "The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2013.

• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…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

  Smart, Thinking, Intelligent

• El hecho de que la diversidad cognitiva sea importante no significa que si reúne a un grupo de personas diversas pero totalmente desinformadas, su sabiduría colectiva será más inteligente que la de un experto. Pero si puede reunir un grupo diverso de personas que posean distintos grados de conocimiento y perspicacia, será mejor confiarle las decisiones importantes en lugar de dejarlas en manos de una o dos personas, por muy inteligentes que sean.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Smart, Mean

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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