ICOS Presents:

"The Difference: Cognitive Diversity and Predictive Models"

Professor Scott Page

omplex Systems, Political Science, and Economics
University of Michigan

January 12, 2007

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Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:01:35)

Outline (00:03:40)

Why We Care (00:04:20)

Examples (00:04:30)

Why do we care (00:04:57)

Examples (00:05:05)

Why do we care (00:05:20)

Examples (00:05:30)

Why do we care (00:06:18)

Examples (00:06:27)

Why do we care (00:06:35)

Surowiecki's Examples (00:07:10)

Galton's Steer (00:07:28)

Galton's Steer (00:08:08)

Who Wants to be a Millionaire (00:08:20)

The Wisdom of Crowds (00:08:54)

Four Models of Information Aggregation (00:09:40)

Model 1: Errors Cancel (00:10:57)

Answer (00:11:40)

How Errors Cancel (00:12:02)

# Votes for Correct Answer (00:12:33)

Why the Crowd's Correct (00:12:57)

Even More Amazing (00:13:20)

Model 2: Parts of the Whole (00:14:16)

Parts of the Whole (00:14:36)

Model 3: Gravity of Truth (00:14:54)

Signals (00:15:20)

Three People (00:15:51)

Three People (00:16:53)

General Model (00:17:06)

Why “Gravity of Truth” (00:18:30)

Model 4: Averaging of Noise (00:19:00)

Noise/Interference (00:19:45)

Noises Off (00:21:09)

Important Question (00:22:16)

Which Model Fits? (00:22:25)

Often, NONE do. (00:24:14)

Two Separate Phenomena (00:24:20)

Interpretations (00:24:48)

Predictive model (00:28:00)

Signal (00:28:10)

“Lump to Live” (00:28:46)

How Do We Predict? (00:28:57)

Interpretations (00:29:32)

Predictive models (00:30:47)

Difference of Opinion (00:31:21)

Miles Davis: Aside (00:32:54)

A Model of Wise Crowds (00:33:32)

Reality (00:36:07)

Experience Interpretation (00:37:33)

Charisma Interpretation (00:38:52)

Balanced Interpretation (00:39:34)

Voting Outcomes (00:41:15)

Reality (00:42:06)

Row and Column Correct (00:42:31)

Row and Column Split (00:42:41)

Negative Correlation (00:42:50)

Not a Set Up! (00:43:15)

Question (00:49:00)

Blink (00:51:46)

Water Flow Problem (00:52:48)

Walsh Functions (00:54:33)

Blinking (00:55:57)

The Real World (00:56:05)

2005 NFL Draft (00:56:28)

Predictive Error? (00:57:16)

Why Squared (00:57:34)

A Wise Crowd (00:58:00)

Why do people... (01:01:30)

# ICOS Tiles Stolen (01:01:40)

Predictions (01:01:54)

Squared Errors (01:02:02)

Predictive Diversity (01:02:15)

2=5-3 (01:02:25)

Crowd Error (01:02:37)

Diversity Prediction Theorem (01:02:47)

Crowds Beat Averages Law (01:05:18)

Crowds Beat Averages Law (01:05:54)

Incentives for Homogeneity (01:06:01)

Experts vs Crowds? (01:12:34)

Over Fitting Paradox (01:12:49)

The Difference (01:13:48)

In Praise of Markets (01:13:57)

The End of History? (01:14:30)

ICOS Ending (01:15:10)

Questions (01:17:00)

Presentation of Tile (01:23:01)

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