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“For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.”
 
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Michael Shermer
 
Name:   Michael Shermer
 
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Date of Birth:   Sep 8, 1954
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
 
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The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
 
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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
 
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In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
 
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