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Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The So-Called Wisdom of the Crowd

There are cases where we want extremism when it's pointed in the right direction. The idea of wisdom of crowds comes from French theorist named Condorcet who did a little arithmetic. If you have a group and each person is more likely to be right than wrong, then the likelihood that the majority gets it right grows to 100% as it gets bigger.

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