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aakilfernandes on May 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Collective Intelligence Enabled By The Internet

There is nothing collective about this. One (or a few) individuals knew the answer, and everyone else contributed nothing.

francoismathieu on May 3, 2013 [–]

It goes beyond those who read the post. Some people asked their friends on Twitter and came back with an answer. Others found the information on crowd sourced websites.

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