Gauging Employment: Is the Professional Wisdom Wrong?

Rescuing Collective Wisdom when the Average Group Opinion Is Wrong

The total knowledge contained within a collective supersedes the knowledge of even its most intelligent member. Yet the collective knowledge will remain inaccessible to us unless we are able to find efficient knowledge aggregation methods that produce reliable decisions based on the behavior or opinions of the collective’s members. It is often stated that simple averaging of a pool of opinions ...

The wisdom of Leon the professional [ethicist].

Intellectual Property on the Internet: What's Wrong with Conventional Wisdom?

by James Bessen and Eric Maskin Revised 2004 Introduction The growth of the Internet has put pressure on traditional intellectual property protections such as copyright and patent. Some forms of information, when made accessible on the Internet, are easily copied. Because the costs of copying are low and because copying is often anonymous, publishers have often responded with more aggressive en...

One-to-one paraprofessionals for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms: is conventional wisdom wrong?

Assigning one-to-one paraprofessionals has become an increasingly common response to support students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in general education classrooms. This article challenges the conventional wisdom that such an approach to service provision is necessarily a desirable and supportive action. Five main reasons are presented that challenge overreliance on the...

Sidelined: employment relations in professional sports