"Sociologists years ago discovered that *the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert (or equally ignorant) observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly chosen observer.*
"Sociologists years ago discovered that *the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert (or equally ignorant) observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly chosen observer.*
They called this *the Delphi effect. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds[Wikipedia^]]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence[Wikipedia^]* It appears that what Linus has shown is that this applies even to debugging an operating system—that the Delphi effect can tame development complexity even at the complexity level of an OS kernel"
They called this *the Delphi effect. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds[Wikipedia^]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence[Wikipedia^]]* It appears that what Linus has shown is that this applies even to debugging an operating system—that the Delphi effect can tame development complexity even at the complexity level of an OS kernel"