High-Speed Idea Filtering with the Bag of Lemons
22 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2014
Date Written: September 25, 2014
Abstract
Open innovation platforms (web sites where crowds post ideas in a shared space) enable us to elicit huge volumes of potentially valuable solutions for problems we care about, but identifying the best ideas in these collections can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. This paper presents an approach, called the "bag of lemons", which enables crowd to filter ideas with accuracy at least comparable to conventional (Likert scale) rating approaches, but in only a fraction of the time. The key insight behind this approach is that crowds are much better at eliminating bad ideas than at identifying good ones.
Keywords: collective intelligence; open innovation; social computing; idea filtering
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