When the wisdom of the crowd goes to the landfill, there is a way to understand whether you are right or not

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Despite the fact that the referendum and other manifestations of the majority opinions may look from the side as the right way to make public decisions (after all, this is the voice of the people), the experiments of scientists show that they should not blindly believe in the wisdom of the crowd. How to understand exactly who of the vast majority has the necessary knowledge for making important decisions in politics and other areas? The journalist and scientist, the author of Scientific American George Masser explains in the article on Aeon, why the opinion common in society can be a trap and how to understand which of the crowd is closest to true knowledge. The masser calls - for this you need to turn to knowledge of knowledge (in other words, metaun).

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