Comment on News Flash: Twitter Doesn’t Make You Smart or Stupid by ronald
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/05/18/news-flash-twitter-doesnt-make-you-smart-or-stupid/#comment-625212
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Comment on News Flash: Twitter Doesn’t Make You Smart or Stupid by ronald
It's not that simple:
It's just not what Bill Keller thinks it is, they really need to read up on modern information theory, see links post.
Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds[1]
“Opinion polls and the mass media largely promote information feedback and therefore trigger convergence of how we judge the facts,” they wrote. The wisdom of crowds is valuable, but used improperly it “creates overconfidence in possibly false beliefs.”
1. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/wisdom-of-crowds-decline/
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