Using Collective Intelligence to Make Better Decisions

Decision making can be broken into two tasks: the generation of potential solutions and the evaluation of them. Each of those tasks can be negatively influenced by numerous human biases (only a handful are listed below). Those biases, though, can be mitigated through the use of three collective-intelligence approaches: outreach, additive aggregation and self-organization.

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