When a small minority does the bulk of the work in a collaborative aggregation system (as with Wikipedia or the Oxford English Dictionary's volunteer contributors), the system still works because the larger 'tail' of participants keeps an eye on it and corrects egregious errors.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

if a small group is doing an enormous amount of the work the tale the rest of us of that dog are keeping an eye on it so if there's an egregious error we can we can fix it

Source

Sunstein on Infotopia, Information and Decision-MakingEconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:35 AM

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