http://mindhacks.com/2009/07/23/the-wisdom-of-crowds/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/07/23/the-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-5465 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:17:13 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/the-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-5465 On kettling:
In order to get atoms to condense into a completely coherent state at very low temperatures (i.e., a Bose-Einstein condensate), physicists use an optical trap, which lets the highest energy atoms escape so that, over time, only the (smaller number of) more synchronized atoms remain, ultimately collapsing into a single mega-atom.
Just an analogy. But interesting to consider. The survivors are not the ones you want to be pushing together, right?

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