Consensus by identifying extremists

DOI10.1023/A:1004918905650MaRDI QIDQ1275238zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robin D. Hanson

Publication date 17 May 1999

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004918905650

zbMATH Keywords

consensuscommon knowledgeBayesian learninginformation pooling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Economics of information (91B44)

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