Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom of Crowds

Imagine you’re consulting for a new medical research lab that will employ about 20 researchers and postdocs working in various areas related to disease and disease prevention, from virology to oncology. The lab’s director has little experience building a successful lab from the ground up, and so is looking to you to make recommendations. Drawing on the Hutto article you read for today as well as the Johnson lecture, outline a proposal in which you make specific recommendations based on what you know about how knowledge gets produced in professional settings.

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