The Smartest People May Not be as Smart as a Crowd‚ but Who can Find a Smart Crowd? In The Wisdom of Crowds‚ author James Surowiecki contends that the “smartest people” are often not as smart as a group of individuals formed under the right circumstances (XIII). Surowiecki backs up his claim by giving numerous real life examples of crowds that meet the criteria of having diversity of opinion‚ independence‚ decentralization and aggregation‚ and have proven to be smarter than almost any one individual
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Reflection paper When I first entered the Cyborg Millennium Class I didn’t really know what to expect. When I went to the class on the first day on the fall 2008‚ I got a bit skeptic and I was thinking that maybe it was a bad idea to register to this class‚ because I thought that this class was for people that liked computers and technology and also that had to know a lot of things that had to do with computers. I certainly wasn’t one of these people that knew a lot about computers or that liked
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Reflection Paper Rebecca Lewis INF 103 Debra Austin March 14‚ 2011 What are the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning in an online class with students from different professions living all over the united states-just like Ashford? To be able to understand the advantages and disadvantages of Asynchronous and Synchronous‚ we have to know what they mean. Asynchronous learning is defined as‚ no set times for everyone to gather together. Synchronous learning is
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Reflection Paper – “Logically Social” The article is titled “Logically Social” on which it tackles the role played by Logic in man’s social being. As I study man’s social being‚ I have learned that it will involve language‚ the fundamental tool for communication. A good example is a relationship between speakers and listeners whereas the speakers must establish the truth of what they say and express and uses reasoning as a way of relating to listeners and the listeners play their part by understanding
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Reflecting on Wisdom Student Name PSY 220 Due Date Teacher Reflecting on Wisdom In life it seems that we always told to take advice from grandpa because he has lived a long time and is wise. Grandpa is the go to person for when we have a life issue. My grandfather is a very wise man. He has learned lessons from life instead of just thinking he was getting punished. He always tells us grandkids and great grandkids that everything happens for a reason; a reason to learn
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Tricia Carlberg FSEM 9-26-14 Reflection Paper: Zombie Apocalypse Myths have been around in all parts of the world for thousands and thousands of years. All religions have their own myths on how the world was created and dealing with the evil spirits in the world and much more. Over the years there were different myths created making society believe in them along with others wanting
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Cristina Simpson Thomas Calo Management 350 08/10/2014 http://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/human-resources-managers.htmhttp://think-business.org/index.php/africa-mid-east/2293-challenges-facing-21st-century-hr-managers Reflection Paper 1 Human Resources as a profession has increased intensively over the recent years and has become a popular with a high demand. Now we here all the time the growth of a company‚ the main reason is because they have the human resources department. HR is the skeleton
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REFLECTION PAPER After finishing the presentation and case studies‚ looking back on the effort we made as a team ‚ I can clearly see that we had a lot of strengths and weaknesses as a team. I am very pleased with the lessons I have learnt. In this assignment i will talk about my reflection upon the presentation that we made as a group and how i managed to work with team members to create a presentation and also what i have learnt from this. We
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I had a bad baseball tryout and I didn’t think I would make the team. I tried my best and gave it my all. I ended making the team that day. If I had not believed in myself or given up I would not have made it. I feel strongly about these words of wisdoms because you never know what could happen if you don’t give up. Never give up in life because if you try your hardest you can achieve anything that you put your mind to. Secondly: Always try your best. If you try your best you will succeed. I always
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Short Critical Reflection Paper * Presnky‚ in his infamous article “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants‚” coined the notion that the youth are digital natives and the older generation digital immigrants. But I am not sure I agree. I know many teenagers who can download movies‚ post to Facebook‚ find a YouTube video and more‚ but the minute they need to learn something there is a lack of knowledge. Am I wrong here? I would not agree with Presnky either. I do think teenagers are very familiar
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