Slate is running a fascinating dialogue between Malcolm Gladwell of Blink and Jim Surowiecki of The Wisdom of Crowds which weaves together the concepts of rapid cognition gut-based decision making with deliberate decision making as well as the value of one expert’s decision versus a group of average people’s decisions.
So far, entries for Monday and Tuesday have been posted, it looks like their dialogue will run all week. Go check it out.
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