The Wisdom of Crowds

詹姆斯•索罗维基（James Surowiecki）《纽约客》杂志特约撰稿人。他的文章见诸很多出版物，包括《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《艺术论坛报》《连线》杂志和《候选人名单》杂志。索罗维基最初在《纽约客》杂志的“金融专版”阐述了群体智慧的思想，回答了美国社会长期以来对群体智慧和团队决策能力的质疑。

出版者:Bantam Dell Pub Group

作者:Surowiecki, James

页数:320

出版时间:2004-5

价格:CDN$ 35.95

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780385503860

图书标签:金融经济计算机经济管理管理投资心理学英文

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications:large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.

This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.

Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which you’re standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? What’s the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist?

The Wisdom of Crowds is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our world.

读后感

群众的意见并不是统一的时候最准确，而恰恰是融合很多不同意见的时候，准确性超过任何个别专家的意见。 -------------------------------------- 作者区分了群众的力量可能解决的3种问题： cognition problem比如猜测股市价格，牛的重量等 coordination problem 比如协调开车，...  

股票市场体现了群体智慧，每个人得到的信息不同，汇总起来就会变得无微不至，进而使得集体的判断更切合实际。  

以下个人观感，主要是对个人独立性的关注，以及脑洞。 倘若按照一定的规则将群体组织起来，获得有效的结果，并以某种方式分析，那么，在存在确定答案的情况下，群体所得出的结论将是可能状况的最优解。 以上是我对此书的总结，书中对每个关键词都佐以了理论阐释和实验及观测...  

群众的意见并不是统一的时候最准确，而恰恰是融合很多不同意见的时候，准确性超过任何个别专家的意见。 -------------------------------------- 作者区分了群众的力量可能解决的3种问题： cognition problem比如猜测股市价格，牛的重量等 coordination problem 比如协调开车，...  

群体决策究竟智慧还是愚蠢？集权究竟高效还是低效？两者如何结合，并如何决定两种模式在什么情况下使用。这是群体心理学的诸多著述试图解决和研究的问题。 最具有耸动性的言论来自于勒庞，那就是群体的愚蠢，即乌合之众。乌合之众的形成是实实在在的现象，成因乃在于其组织的封...  

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