the fascinating thing about those studies is the implication that many kinds of human knowledge are (normally?) distributed, and you can ask questions that's ha

the fascinating thing about those studies is the implication that many kinds of human knowledge are (normally?) distributed, and you can ask questions that's hard for an individual to get right but easy for a group (crowdsourcing). somewhat akin to how one brain cell doesn't contain knowledge, but a (large) collection of them do. it's like there's built-in fault tolerance. =)