{"id":23,"date":"2011-05-18T01:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-05-18T01:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:32:29","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/2011\/05\/18\/ignorance-is-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance is Bliss!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very intriguing study about how social media\/interactions may be warping &#8220;crowd wisdom&#8221; &#8212; defined as\u00a0<em>&#8220;the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0In this study,\u00a0researchers told test participants about their peers\u2019 guesses. As a result, their group insight (a.k.a., group regression to the mean) <em>&#8220;went awry&#8221;.<\/em> You can think about this as introducing dependencies, and hence biases in the sample statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/wisdom-of-crowds-decline\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/wisdom-of-crowds-decline\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should try this in a test in CS-350!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps related to the above is\u00a0the\u00a0mounting\u00a0criticism of &#8220;personalization&#8221; as introducing biases in what (say) search engines return to different people for the same exact query &#8212; Google now is personalizing Google search and Google News&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is something to be said for having crowds have consistent views of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very intriguing study about how social media\/interactions may be warping &#8220;crowd wisdom&#8221; &#8212; defined as\u00a0&#8220;the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers&#8221;.\u00a0In this study,\u00a0researchers told test participants about their peers\u2019 guesses. As a result, their group insight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}