{"id":145,"date":"2015-06-25T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:06:21","slug":"the-folly-of-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-folly-of-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Folly of Crowds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Ayton\/ Sepideh Bazazi\/\u00a0Chris Frith\/ Bahador Bahrami<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"The Folly of Crowds?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=3149\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 25 June, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<br \/>\nOld Theatre, Old Building,\u00a0LSE<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~sj361\/\">Peter Ayton<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Psychology, City University, London<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sbazazi.com\/Home.html\">Sepideh Bazazi<\/a><\/strong>, Researcher at the Centre on Animal Cognition, DYNACTOM, Universit\u00e9 Paul Sabatier<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk\/Frith\/\">Chris Frith<\/a><\/strong>, Psychologist and Emeritus Professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icn.ucl.ac.uk\/Research-Groups\/awareness-group\/group-members\/MemberDetails.php?FirstName=Bahador&amp;LastName=Bahrami\">Bahador Bahrami<\/a><\/strong>, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL<\/p>\n<p>Mind sharing, crowdsourcing, online ratings \u2013 in our modern world we are constantly exposed to the opinion of the group. We are told that crowds are wise (\u2018Two heads are better than one\u2019\u00a0<em>Ecclesiastes<\/em>\u00a04:9-12) and are cautioned against the madness of the mobs (\u2018Too many cooks spoil the broth\u2019). When is the crowd wise and when is it prone to madness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Ayton\/ Sepideh Bazazi\/\u00a0Chris Frith\/ Bahador Bahrami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[31,41,57,32,39],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-neuroscience","tag-philosophy-of-mind","tag-philosophyofscience","tag-psychology","tag-rationality"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11898,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/11898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}