Comments on: The proverbial wisdom of crowds http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/ Musings of a computer scientist on predictions, odds, and markets Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:37:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Pennock http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-979 David Pennock Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:57:03 +0000 http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-979 Updates: In September 2009, <a href="http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/09/12/derren-brown-lottery-wisdom-of-crowds/" rel="nofollow">magician Derren Brown claimed to harness the wisdom of crowds</a> to select winning UK lottery numbers and <a href="http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/09/29/wisdom-of-crowds-in-popular-culture-again/" rel="nofollow">a character on the American TV show "House" invoked the wisdom of crowds to diagnose his own condition.</a> Fun to watch the concept seep into popular culture. Updates:

In September 2009, magician Derren Brown claimed to harness the wisdom of crowds to select winning UK lottery numbers and a character on the American TV show “House” invoked the wisdom of crowds to diagnose his own condition.

Fun to watch the concept seep into popular culture.

]]> By: David Pennock http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-257 David Pennock Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:05:05 +0000 http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-257 Tate, thanks for the comment. I enjoyed your blog and company description. And here I thought you coined the term thingnaming... Tate, thanks for the comment. I enjoyed your blog and company description. And here I thought you coined the term thingnaming…

]]> By: Tate Linden http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-256 Tate Linden Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:12:27 +0000 http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/01/31/the-proverbial-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-256 David, I'm fascinated by thingnaming, too! Thanks for expanding the conversation to include the impact of phrases and concepts - people don't often realize that the terms we throw around had to come from somewhere (like "Death Tax" - a term that very intentionally replaced "inheritance tax" and took the world by storm.) Heck, "Thingnaming" is a coined term... it just hadn't caught on yet. Thanks for the post and the link. David,

I’m fascinated by thingnaming, too! Thanks for expanding the conversation to include the impact of phrases and concepts – people don’t often realize that the terms we throw around had to come from somewhere (like “Death Tax” – a term that very intentionally replaced “inheritance tax” and took the world by storm.)

Heck, “Thingnaming” is a coined term… it just hadn’t caught on yet.

Thanks for the post and the link.

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