One thing that I really enjoyed about this article was its description of "the wisdom of crowds." Typically that phrase shrouded in marketing bullshit that just boils down to the idea that groups are always smarter than individuals because magic. That idea on its own is really counterintuitive and hard to accept.
It was a good call to talk about the scientific basis for the idea; I wish more places that relied on crowdsourcing would do the same thing.
> That idea on its own is really counterintuitive and hard to accept.
Not really... For example, have you heard of the Cicada puzzle? That is solved by groups of people, and probably wouldn't be solved if it was just one person.
Multiple people with specialized knowledge > one person with specialized knowledge.
We didn't evolve to be social animals because it would make us stupid...
It was a good call to talk about the scientific basis for the idea; I wish more places that relied on crowdsourcing would do the same thing.