Saturday, January 13, 2007

On the Importance of Diversity: It's The Difference

"Truth by consensus" is how Wikipedia is defined in Time magazine's end of the year edition. Now that is a Baha'i concept. John Hopkin's Master's in Public Heath student Wade Schuette extoles the importance of diversity and the book The Difference by Scott E. Page. - gw


Can a crowd of average people be smarter than experts? "Yes, but only if they are very diverse" is the latest academic resarch finding.



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