Referendums: Tyranny of the Majority?

Tyranny of the Majority or Echo Chambers?

If reputation systems weight all perspectives similarly, they may devolve into simple majority rule. But if they give each user reputation scores that take only other similar users’ opinions into account, they run the risk of becoming “echo chambers” in which like-minded people reinforce each others’ views without being open to outside perspectives. Massa discusses design choices and trust metr...

A Review of Lani Guinier's The Tyranny of the Majority

Overcoming the Tyranny of the Majority in Social Information Filtering Systems

Social information filtering [1] is a typical application of the Semantic Web [2]. It constructs a Web of trust based on reputation. The Semantic Web is a means of creating a large information space that contain users’ profiles, including bookmarks and historical behaviors, in shareable machine understandable format. These profiles are considered to be good information sources about users for t...

Simón Bolívar’s Republic: a Bulwark against the “tyranny” of the Majority

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR’S REPUBLIC: A BULWARK AGAINST THE “TYRANNY” OF THE MAJORITY

Trust Metrics on Controversial Users: Balancing Between Tyranny of the Majority

In today’s connected world it is possible and indeed quite common to interact with unknown people, whose reliability is unknown. Trust Metrics are a technique for answering questions such as “Should I trust this person?”. However, most of the current research assumes that every user has a global quality score everyone agree on and the goal of the technique is just to predict this correct value....