6. The Best Decision Makers

Artificial intelligence's march to the ballot box, by RTS/dbu, Apr 23, 2022, 9:00 am, SWI swissinfo.ch. [return]
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/artificial-intelligence-s-march-to-the-ballot-box/46556718

A. Ibid [return]
B. How robots are coming for your vote, by Frank Swain, Nov 25, 2019, BBC. [return]
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-how-robots-are-coming-for-your-vote

The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki, Aug 16, 2005, Introduction III, Kindle edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. [return]
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki-ebook/dp/B000FCKC3I/ref=sr_1_1

Ibid, Introduction IV [return]

Problem Solving: When Groups Perform Better Than Teammates, by Timoteo Carlettia , Alessio Guarinob , Andrea Guazzinic and Federica Stefanellid, Jun 30, 2019, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23 (3) 4. [return]
https://www.jasss.org/23/3/4.html

Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, by Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W. Malone, Sep 30, 2010, Science, Vol 330, Issue 6004, pg 686-688. [return]
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1193147 (requires copy and paste into a browser)

The Wisdom of Crowds  [ref 3, pgs 188-189, Kindle edition] [return]

A. The Wisdom of Crowds, chapters 2 – 6 [ref 3] [return]
B. The Wisdom of Crowds, Wikipedia. [return]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#:~:text=The%20Wisdom%20of%20Crowds%3A%20Why,better%20than%20could%20have%20been

The Wisdom of Crowds, chapter 12 [ref 3] [return]

Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, Wikipedia. [return]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections

A. New study sheds light on the 100 million Americans who don’t vote, their political views and what they think about 2020, by Knight Foundation, Feb 19, 2020, Knight Foundation. [return]
https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/new-study-sheds-light-on-the-100-million-americans-who-dont-vote-their-political-views-and-what-they-think-about-2020/
B. Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?, Jun 21, 2017, The Pew Charitable Trusts. [return]
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2017/06/why-are-millions-of-citizens-not-registered-to-vote
C. Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020, by Jacob Fabina and Zachary Scherer, Jan 2022, P20-585, US Census Bureau. [return]
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2022/demo/p20-585.pdf

Membership of the 117th Congress: A Profile, updated Jan 3, 2022, Congressional Research Service. [return]
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46705

The Wisdom of Crowds, pg 115, Kindle edition [ref 3] [return]

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Oct 6, 2008, pgs 18-21, Random House. [return]
https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Incerto-ebook/dp/B001FA0W5W/ref=sr_1_1

Ibid, pgs 254-256 [return]