If there is a brief and quickly quashed flash of data that could result in a patient death, “who cares?” He suggested that the one-time transmission of erroneous data could accidentally yield information that might in some way advance understanding of treatment for a disease like ALS. Playing devil’s advocate, Heywood proposed that some good could come from the 16-second dissemination of fatal data. “At any moment in time, theoretically, someone could write something on a biomedical page that killed someone-even if 16 seconds later the information could have been reversed.” The concept of a 16-second dissemination of fatal data reverberated throughout the discussion. “The truth will prevail.” On the other hand, Barris pointed out that the time and amount of input that a crowd needs in order to invalidate bad data could cost a patient his life. On the one hand, Boguski argued that “with the large amount of information being produced, at the end of the day, the information that is not valid or even fraudulent won’t be used” the wisdom of the crowd will serve to invalidate it. Boguski and Barris illustrated opposing views of the wisdom of crowds. What role does the wisdom of crowds play in accessing credible health information?īoguski, Heywood, and Barris made statements about tapping into the wisdom of crowds in the context of user-friendly, patient information delivered electronically. Some members of this crowd are patients and caregivers, some are medical experts, and some have no first-hand knowledge about genetic diseases. With the emergence of Web 3.0, whether we like it or not, the crowd is already disseminating and validating information about genetic conditions. The wisdom of crowds does not come from a single source: “a well-placed propaganda campaign is not the wisdom of crowds.” It is fluid and evolving. A crowd of unrelated people may have a type of collective wisdom, whether the crowd is a dangerous mob or a group of disparate scientists eventually coming to a commonplace solution. Terry introduced the concept of “the wisdom of crowds” popularized by James Surowiecki in the bestselling book of the same name.
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