The Wisdom of Crowds (Vox Populi) and Antidepressant Use
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The Wisdom of Crowds (Vox Populi) and Antidepressant Use
Under certain conditions, groups of people may (collectively) make better judgments than experts. Galton connected this phenomenon to the phrase vox populi in a 1907 paper. Arguably, an example of the phenomenon may be found in recent stabilization of the frequency of antidepressant use, following decades of increases. There is no evidence that a change in physi-cian behaviour has caused this s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1745-0179
DOI: 10.2174/1745017901510011001