Generating wisdom of the crowds is 90% art, 10% science. That’s why early enthusiasm for the concept around the time of Surowiecki book by that name (2004) kinda petered out. We thought it could be an algorithmic/bureaucratic mining process back then.
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I am known for my skills in this art
apart from asking good questions to begin with (which is the first 90%),
it requires being this sort of benevolent supportive schoolteacher figure, asking people to elaborate, getting them to play nicely, mod skills (which is the second 90%)
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