On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, john g marr <jmarr_at_unm.edu> wrote:
> ...
>
>> Crowd-sourcing may be a part of the solution, but is subject to incredible
>> manipulation.
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> Crowds using Critical Thinking (+ study of "Fallacy" and "Cognitive Bias")
> as a selection tool would be incredibly immune to manipulation.
>
I know I've been told that "authority is dead", but I think it's a
legitimate research question whether crowds limited to "academic" members
would differ in book/page rankings from unlimited crowds. How do you ensure
the crowd is using Critical Thinking?
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
Received on Tue May 10 2011 - 13:44:18 EDT