The platform industry is currently on the rise, and with so many platforms, acquiring users getting them to engage can be challenging. To address this, platforms are relying crowdfunding, network effects incentives, including monetary incentives. But what techniques using monetarily incentivize their crowd? Although study of dynamics has been research crowdsourcing, incentivization, there no pr...

When dealing with subjective, noisy, or otherwise nebulous features, the “wisdom of crowds” suggests that one may benefit from multiple judgments of the same feature on the same object. We give theoreticallymotivated feature multi-selection algorithms that choose, among a large set of candidate features, not only which features to judge but how many times to judge each one. We demonstrate the e...

Abstract Plato's antipathy to crowds is a commonplace that reinforces prevailing portrait of the Socratic method as practice centers on individuals, exclusion and many. This canonical view, however, comes into tension with tendency Socrates conduct his dialogues in presence collective audiences. I argue position at once more complex ambivalent than has been commonly accepted. distinguish betwee...

We use a series of historical natural experiments in association football to test whether social pressure from home stadium crowd affected behavior and outcomes. The standout effect an empty was that referees cautioned visiting players less often, by over third yellow card per match or once for every 22 fouls committed. Stadium crowds caused favor the team their decision-making. Empty stadiums ...