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Surowiecki’s model seeks to aggregate anonymously produced data, seeing the wisdom emerging when a large number of people each enter their own calculations without influencing each other’s findings. Levy’s model focuses on the kinds of deliberative process that occurs in online communities as participants share information, correct and evaluate each other’s findings, and arrive at a consensus understanding.
— Henry Jenkins, blog 27 nov 2006 Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Collective Intelligence vs. The Wisdom of Crowds