Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds

Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki

Good quote: “It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.” (Page 118)

An interesting read from a sociological perspective. Basically, Surowiecki proposes that often crowds are smarter than individuals. Maybe not smarter an expert, but crowds are made up of everyone (experts included) and that often a crowd can predict the correct outcome or the correct weight of an ox–better than any one individual. Isn’t that something? And the thing is, it’s true. After reading this book, I tried it. I used the wisdom of crowds and found myself out of a large maze in record time. His theory, in my books, is now considered tried, tested and true.

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