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That concept is similar to the whole "wisdom of the crowd" thing, isn't it? Interesting.
by girvo 11y ago
That concept is similar to the whole "wisdom of the crowd" thing, isn't it? Interesting.
- gwern 11y agoYes, wisdom-of-the-crowds or Condorcet's jury theorem are very similar. (Now that I think about it more, there's also a lot of potential advantages to Twitter: global coverage, uniform data access, less risk of 'juking the numbers', less criteria drift over time... Yes, maybe local police records are much better, but you could spend a lifetime trying to get copies of them and putting them into the same data format and reconciling differing definitions etc.)