James Surowiecki also tells the story of the search for the Scorpion in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, where I first read about it. The Wikipedia article [0] g

James Surowiecki also tells the story of the search for the Scorpion in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, where I first read about it. The Wikipedia article [0] gives a basic account, and the article on Bayesian search theory [1], in addition to describing the procedure quite well, mentions several other searches in which the method proved successful. 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)#Search:_1968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)#Search:_... 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory