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The decisions made by these people would build on the wisdom of crowds.
So imagine a blue-sky day, crowds of people, television cameras, kids staring up toward the sky at a thing that will change their future.
I got there and I saw huge crowds.
And she remembers struggling with her mother to the front, crowds and crowds of people, "Take my child!
Crowds are gathered in Tahrir Square.
They also depict the massive crowds that attended these lynchings, and they are postcards that were also used for correspondence.
Please forgive us if we don't like being in big crowds.
Sick children were held up in crowds to try and touch the cloak of the king or the queen to cure them of some terrible disease.
By the middle of February, I found myself in Turin, where enthusiastic crowds cheered when any of the 80 Olympic teams was in the street.
Crowds of men with beards and skullcaps were swarming the streets.
Amid its crowds, he felt immense gratitude, but also duty.
If we take a bigger leap back in history, we'll see that for as long as there have been public judicial executions and beheadings, there have been the crowds to see them.
To us in the 21st century, the guillotine may seem like a monstrous contraption, but to the first crowds who saw it, it was actually a disappointment.
But not so long ago, many burial grounds were lively places, with blooming gardens and crowds of people strolling among the headstones.
But when the sheep finally breaks free and makes for the fields, the guards can barely keep up as it scampers through crowds packing up their yurts.
This would maximize media coverage and grab the attention of the crowds who would be in town.
This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds, or the paradox of collective intelligence, that what it requires is actually a form of independent thinking.
Research has shown that crowds are wise when there's independent thinking.
This why the wisdom of the crowds can be destroyed by peer pressure, publicity, social media, or sometimes even simple conversations that influence how people think.
We thought crowds would be wiser if they debated in small groups that foster a more thoughtful and reasonable exchange of information.
In other words, based on this experiment, it seems that after talking with others in small groups, crowds collectively come up with better judgments.
So that's a potentially helpful method for getting crowds to solve problems that have simple right-or-wrong answers.
It could be interacted with large crowds in different ways.
I'm not suggesting the crowds are about to storm the barricades and string up every investment banker from the nearest lamppost, though that might be quite tempting.
Truth was confident God would protect her, but some crowds responded to her bravery with violence.
As we neared, angry crowds attacked our trucks and stoned them, by hundreds of people all over the place.
Running the gauntlet through hostile crowds, and some wearing motorbike helmets to prevent injury.
I took this down to Ground Zero, and knocked my way through crowds for an hour.
But recently, I've become intrigued by a different way of thinking of large human crowds, because there are circumstances where they can do something really cool.
Then we move swiftly on, as we need to see war erupt in a peaceful forest, we need to see multiple inflammatory feministic public speeches being drowned in the (male) blowing of cars horns or rioting crowds, and of course we need to see cinema newsreels of Stalin and all the other usual suspects.
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