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The Wisdom of Crowds
By:James Surowiecki
Published on 2005-08-16 by Anchor

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

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(Please recognize that many a sic are intended in the next reviews.) its actually difficult and silly! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that guide is great! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a evaluation published in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal yell unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... that will be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you never want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it was supposed to be read, then it would be a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None of us had read the play before. None folks wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can actually fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to see a play then you definitely have sinned and are going to hell, if you rely on hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I'm also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow to your small linguistic rules. Artistic manifestation can free of charge itself irrespective of how you attempt to be able to shackle it. 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