Good Listeners, Wise Crowds, and Parasitic Experts

Analyse & Kritik 34 (2):399-408 (2012)
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This article comments on the article of Thorn and Schurz in this volume and focuses on, what we call, the problem of parasitic experts. We discuss that both meta-induction and crowd wisdom can be understood as pertaining to absolute reliability rather than comparative optimality, and we suggest that the involvement of reliability will provide a handle on this problem

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Jan-Willem Romeijn
University of Groningen
Tom F. Sterkenburg
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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