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Dashboard - PeerIndex - 0 views

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*influence *authority

shared by Kurt Laitner on 23 Nov 10 - Cached
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  • Kurt Laitner on 23 Nov 10
     
    Black box is unhelpful, but low score totally understandable :-) interesting early attempts, can't see this being terribly useful though as many of the people I would trust would score even more dismally than I, this is an attempt at an objective view of an intersubjective measure
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A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky - 2 views

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shared by Kurt Laitner on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Khotyn is a small town in Moldova. That is a piece of information about Eastern European geography, and one that could be right or could be wrong. You’ve probably never heard of Khotyn, so you have to decide if you’re going to take my word for it. (The “it” you’d be taking my word for is your belief that Khotyn is a town in Moldova.)
  • Do you trust me? You don’t have much to go on, and you’d probably fall back on social judgement — do other people vouch for my knowledge of European geography and my likelihood to tell the truth?
  • o I have certification from an institution
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  • The social characteristic of deciding who to trust is a key feature of authority
  • because some other group has vouched, formally or informally, for my trustworthiness.
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