When people are pervasively disinformed, the very foundations of democracy can end up on shaky ground.
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Buying and selling stocks – with real or play money – is a way to harness the wisdom of the crowd about questions like who is going to win a competition.
The WHO is creating a Global Pandemic Radar – an example of collective intelligence that must learn lessons from this pandemic.
Those with strong beliefs tend to be admired.
Innovative ideas during the lockdown could protect democracy and make it stronger and more inclusive.
Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.
They’ve been right so far – and the crowd is now forecasting another Article 50 extension.
After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the birds to a different classification test in real life.
We have developed a system that combines human intuition with machine learning to provide support for people making complex decisions.
There are a lot of misconceptions about how social media is changing society. Here are some of the most important.
A new way of encouraging people to seek out unused information could improve collective decision making.
The mob is a surprisingly clever thing.
If you want the best tool for making educated guesses, then you’d better get the basics right.
Top contributors
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Principal Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta
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Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta
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Professor of Human Computer Interaction, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Goldsmiths, University of London
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University Academic Fellow in Data Analytics, University of Leeds
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Researcher, Government Innovation, Nesta
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Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Southern California
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Professor of Metaphysics and Epistemology, University of Leeds
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Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently Vice-Chancellor at MILA University, Malaysia), University of Nottingham
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Graduate Student in Psychology, University of Iowa
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Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University