Crowdsourcing
Definition
Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.
Description
There are many methods of accessing the knowledge that exists in a crowd, but three main criteria must be present and considered to help ensure the success of the endeavour: diversity, independence, and decentralization.
Diversity in this case means not just the usually understood meaning of different cultures, genders, etc. but also a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, age, education, anything that can create a difference.
The enemy of diversity is homogeneity (sameness) which leads to the illusion of invulnerability and a willingness to rationalize away opposing arguments, this in turn leads to a high likelihood of inaccurate/undesired outcomes.
Independence
Decentralization
