F.D. Flam, Columnist

He Seemed Like a Good Source, Until I Found Out He Was a Democrat

Political labels interfere with the wisdom of crowds.

Crowdsourcing.

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Albert Einstein once said: “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”

Easier said than done! Luckily social science has pointed to a less steep path: liberation from political labels.