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ABSTRACT: Editorial note
This article has been through an editorial process in which the authors decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review. The Reviewing Editor's assessment is that all the issues have been addressed (see decision letter).
SUBMITTER: Marshall JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374072 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marshall James Ar JA Kurvers Ralf Hjm RH Krause Jens J Wolf Max M
eLife 20190213
Collective decision-making is ubiquitous, and majority-voting and the Condorcet Jury Theorem pervade thinking about collective decision-making. Thus, it is typically assumed that majority-voting is the best possible decision mechanism, and that scenarios exist where individually-weak decision-makers should not pool information. Condorcet and its applications implicitly assume that only one kind of error can be made, yet signal detection theory shows two kinds of errors exist, 'false positives' a ...[more]