Our Noisy Minds
Hidden Brain
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The Wisdom of the Crowd
When people make judgments about different cases, errors don't cancel out. My judgment really is just a reflection of your judgment, not an independent one. When you have witnesses who talk to each other, the value of their testimony is sharply reduced. In effect, in the extreme, if you have one witness who is very assertive and all the other nesses fit their story to his, then you have one witness regardless of how many testify....
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