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Are the many wiser than the few? Phil Ball explores the latest evidence on what can make groups of people smarter – but can also make them wildly wrong. In an age routinely denounced as selfishly individualistic, it’s curious that a great deal of faith still seems to lie with the judgment of the crowd, especially when it can apparently be far off the mark. Yet there is some truth underpinning the idea that the masses can make more accurate collective judgments than expert individuals. So why is a crowd sometimes right and sometimes disastrously wrong? The notion that a group’s judgement can b