A Big Crowd Of DENIERS!
Last year I read The Smear, a highly illuminating book written by a former CBS reporter named Sharyl Attkinsson. As you may recall, I mentioned her in this post and… Read more »
Category Archives: Wisdom of Crowds
My Heart’s All A-Flutter! The Anointed, The Wisdom Of Crowds, And Another Stupid Study
Years ago, I read an interview with a researcher who said something like, “If you want to study the migratory patterns of squirrels and you name your proposed study The… Read more »
The Anointed, The Experts, And Knowledge … Part Four
For real people, if something works in theory, but not in practice, it doesn’t work. For academics, if something works in practice, but not in theory, it doesn’t exist. –… Read more »
The Anointed, The Experts, And Knowledge … Part Three
In the speech I recently gave at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s annual conference, I mentioned some ideas from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s excellent book Antifragile. The type of person Thomas… Read more »
The Anointed, The Experts, And Knowledge … Part Two
I’d planned to write a post on expertise and experience, but we’ll wait on that one. Someone left a comment on the previous post that deserves a post of its… Read more »
The Anointed, The Experts, And Knowledge … Part One
Here’s a bit from the speech I recently gave on Diet, Health and the Wisdom of Crowds (2018 version): Yes, The Anointed are hearing back from the rest of of… Read more »