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Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2012
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Podcast episode
Description
What do Linux, Netflix, and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? They've all benefited from the power of crowdsourcing, in which a task is outsourced to a group of hundreds or thousands of disparate people. In this episode of Rationally Speaking, Julia and Massimo discuss the phenomena of crowdsourcing, and ask: What makes it work? Is it ever unethical? And what are the limits to the wisdom of crowds?
Released:
Dec 16, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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