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A route to well-being: Intelligence versus wise reasoning
Laypeople and many social scientists assume that superior reasoning abilities lead to greater well-being. However, previous research has been inconclusive. This may be because prior investigators used operationalizations of reasoning that favored analytic as opposed to wise thinking. We assessed … Continue reading
Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision … Continue reading
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Trusteeship, Wisdom, and the Creative Future of Education?
What role does, and should, creativity play in education? What role can and should creativity play in designing the school of the future? This article explores the ascendance of creativity in education in the late 20th and early 21st century, … Continue reading
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Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Author Tom Atlee has decided to release two chapters of the book as a work-in-progress and invites reader feedback, in keeping with the book’s ultimate goal: the generation of true wisdom through the voices and ideas of people from all … Continue reading
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Wisdom, intelligence, and creativity synthesized
For thirty years, Robert J. Sternberg has been among the most vocal critics of narrow conceptions of intelligence. In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized Sternberg critically reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any … Continue reading
The modern trend to monetize everything ignores Civilizational Wisdom
Read Civilizations, for good reasons, have an idea of some of the things that are part of nature’s bounty that money ought not be able to buy. Forests, rivers, sanctity of the human body, blood, water, are some of the … Continue reading
Wisdom about crowds
Read To model the behaviour of humans en masse, treat them as people, not molecules. The behaviour of crowds is sometimes unpredictable and occasionally deadly, but there is good reason to believe it is governed by simple rules. Presumably, like … Continue reading
How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect
Read Social groups can be remarkably smart and knowledgeable when their averaged judgements are compared with the judgements of individuals. Already Galton found evidence that the median estimate of a group can be more accurate than estimates of experts. This … Continue reading
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, Surowiecki argues that “under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.” To support … Continue reading
The Crowds – A Study of the Popular Mind
Read Read also – The Psychology of Revolution The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of … Continue reading
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