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I fear, though, that the belief that crowds always display more wisdom than individuals is built upon the insubstantiated notion that people - individually and collectively - are always whether intrinsically or extrinsically motivated to do right and be the best they can be, and that this driver increases exponentially when people gather together.

Archive 2006-11-01 Karyn Romeis 2006

I fear, though, that the belief that crowds always display more wisdom than individuals is built upon the insubstantiated notion that people - individually and collectively - are always whether intrinsically or extrinsically motivated to do right and be the best they can be, and that this driver increases exponentially when people gather together.

Wisdom of crowds get challenged... Karyn Romeis 2006

And, when one came to think of it, he did not; a certain flabbiness of spirit, a lack of temperament, an absence, perhaps, of the ironic, or passionate, view, insubstantiated his work; it had no edge -- just a felicity which passed for distinction with the crowd.

Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

And, when one came to think of it, he did not; a certain flabbiness of spirit, a lack of temperament, an absence, perhaps, of the ironic, or passionate, view, insubstantiated his work; it had no edge -- just a felicity which passed for distinction with the crowd.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

I've been a bit confused by the line taken by the Nat cheerleaders - etc, the gist of which is that the attacks against Worth are insubstantiated politicised smears and that Worth should resign immediately.

WordPress.com News 2009

"In its press statement, the Protector says that much of what was published by the M&G was 'factually inaccurate, based on incomplete information and document and comprised of insubstantiated suggestions and unspecified speculation'.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

IMO, it is still a revisionist’s view to state that MBH ‘98 and ‘99 played a minor part in the IPCC’01 TAR and the present decade policy discussions… especially since current governments (see thread “Spot the Hockey Stick”) still use this icon (and the IPCC’01 TAR) to prescribe cost-ineffective policy, from its dramatic and insubstantiated (if not incorrect) form!

Lambert, Lott and Mann « Climate Audit 2005