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The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein

Big Brains

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How Groups Can Go in Unpredictably Directions

A study done a number of years ago looked at the popularity of songs. It found that, while the best songs never completely crashed and the worst songs never went right to the top, other than that, anything could happen. So iever could be really popular, like a terrific success, in one world, if it got early downwads. And it could be be really unpopular in another group where it didn't get early downwards. Because of social influences, groups can go in very unpredictable directions depending on what is early onn seen as lihet by group members.

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