How many jellybeans?
David Runciman: Non-spurious generalisations and why the crowd will win, 5 August 2004
Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes
by Frederick Schauer.
Harvard, 359 pp., £19.95, February 2004,0 674 01186 4 Show More
by Frederick Schauer.
Harvard, 359 pp., £19.95, February 2004,
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few
by James Surowiecki.
Little, Brown, 295 pp., £16.99, June 2004,0 316 86173 1 Show More
by James Surowiecki.
Little, Brown, 295 pp., £16.99, June 2004,
“... Individuals, by contrast, can use their own judgment, and make exceptions. However, as Frederick Schauer argues in his excellent book, though we are right to suspect that all general rules are discriminatory, we are wrong to suppose that it is therefore better to trust to individuals. This is because no individual is truly capable of judging ... ”
