1 min readMar 11, 2019
Second your opinion, Friedrich Nietzsche puts it better — “Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule.”
There are errors in collective intelligence that can lead a group to make faulty decisions, but if group manages to stay diverse, work as a team and foster open dialogues, the “wisdom of crowds” is not a meaningless cliche.
An instance from the book in 1906 at a livestock fair, scientist Francis Galton observed visitors taking part in a contest to guess an ox’s weight, the mean value of the crowd was the closest guess, many more incidences.