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The idea
CrowdSmart was originally developed for collaborative investing within a venture-capital firm. The chapter says it combines ranking with Bayesian learning, a method for updating estimates as information arrives, to build models of how group collaboration affects outcomes and identify group priorities and desired outcomes.
Place in the reasoning
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Describes CrowdSmart’s use of ranking and Bayesian learning to identify group priorities, and notes its venture-capital setting. This is a concrete mechanism for organizing collective input, but the claim does not establish its accuracy, inclusiveness, or effectiveness in democratic deliberation.
Online discussion needs more than access to technology
The collective-input mechanism is a contextual example of technology intended to organize group priorities. Its original investment setting and lack of validation limit what it establishes about democratic representation.
Designing discussions where people can take part and be heard
Ranking and Bayesian updating offer one described way to aggregate group input, but the passage does not show that the method ensures participants are heard or included.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
The passage describes a system developed for collaborative investing in a venture-capital firm. It uses rankings and Bayesian learning to build models of causal collaboration and find group priorities and desired outcomes.
Why it matters
This is presented as a way to use collective input, but the passage does not report how accurate the models are or whether the method works in other settings.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Complete Augmented Deliberation chapter from the book that is updated over time. Other chapters are not included. The revised claim preserves the stated setting and the specific model-building mechanism without implying that the method has been validated. Addresses: CrowdSmart’s method and origin
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