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    MIT finds actual wisdom in the wisdom of crowds

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    01.26.2017

    To paraphrase Men In Black's Agent K, a person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky and dangerous animals. Researchers at MIT and Princeton wanted to see if, despite this, they were able to extract better information from crowds. They appear to have succeeded after developing an algorithm that looks at what people answer, but also what they believe other people will answer too.