Yet more reasons to fund diverse basic science
Prawns and Probability,
Research is an incremental, iterative process. New advances build on those that came before, and open up new lines of research…
General election 2017: Opinion Polls vs Betting Markets
Prawns and Probability,
Update, June 9: The results are in, and the BBC gives the vote share for each party. Although the polls gave a wide variety of…
Optimal incentives for collective intelligence
Deric Bownds' MindBlog,
Mann and Helbing devise a game-theoretic model of collective prediction showing that an antidote to groupthink and conformity…
A simple reward system could make crowds a whole lot wiser
Prawns and Probability,
Richard Mann, University of Leeds There’s a problem with the wisdom of crowds. Market economies and democracies rely on the…