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Collective Intelligence: Why groups get smart, strange and stuck
by Niccolò Pescetelli and Georgina Denis
Human beings are strange enough alone. Put us together and things get really interesting. Collective Intelligence: Why Groups Get Smart, Strange and Stuck is a popular-science podcast about the forces that shape what humans do together. Hosted by Prof. Niccolò Pescetelli and the team at People Supported Intelligence, it uses remarkable stories and surprising research from psychology, economics, biology, history and beyond to explore how ideas spread, norms take hold, crowds move, societies cooperate and intelligent people produce collectively foolish decisions. Collective Intelligence reveals the hidden forces that make groups smart, strange and stuck.
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Condorcet's Terrifying Assumption
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A French aristocrat proved that majorities converge on the truth. The proof needs one condition, and he spent his life building the very things that destroy it. In this episode The jury…
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The ox, and the man who wanted you to be mediocre
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A crowd guessed the weight of an ox and got it almost exactly right. The man who collected the guesses did not think much of crowds, and the condition he wrote down has been dropped from the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Human beings are strange enough alone. Put us together and things get really interesting.
Collective Intelligence: Why Groups Get Smart, Strange and Stuck is a popular-science podcast about the forces that shape what humans do together. Hosted by Prof. Niccolò Pescetelli and the team at People Supported Intelligence, it uses remarkable stories and surprising research from psychology, economics, biology, history and beyond to explore how ideas spread, norms take hold, crowds move, societies cooperate and intelligent people produce collectively foolish decisions.
Collective Intelligence reveals the hidden forces that make groups smart, strange and stuck.
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Niccolò Pescetelli and Georgina Denis
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