The Wisdom Of Crowds

Many of us feel that the individual is often smarter than the group, but is this actually the case? In this infographic, we explore how crowd wisdom works and what conditions must be present to generate the extraordinary results only groups can produce.

Here is what we learned:

• A collective group had a 99.8% guessing accuracy at a TED conference
• There are four main elements to create a “wise” crowd
• How game shows use the wisdom of the crowd