Is the crowd's wisdom biased?: A quantitative analysis of three online communities

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 251-255

  Kostakos, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Expert evaluation; Quantitative analysis; Rating; Voting

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SUGGESTIONS; EXPERT EVALUATION; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; VOTING MECHANISM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70849100042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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