Just a thought from me, but isn’t that Wisdom of Crowds simply… if you get enough people to discuss something at some point it will average out at the right answer? Wisdom of Crowds should have been a one pager called: “The Wisdom of Crowds – take the mean of a large group and its more likely to be right than the mean of a small group”
Alot has been made of the Wisdom of Crowds. From Derren Brown to James Surowiecki, we cling on to the hope that the “many are more powerful” than the few. I’m no scientist but to me the fact that you can get 1,000 people into a room, and they are more likely to get an answer than 10 people of similar quality doesn’t astound me.
Blink is another book which I feel could have also been resolved in one page… which would have said “Blink. You should go with your first instinct”.
