April 2, 2013

LinkedIN Is Not Being Gamed - It’s The Wisdom Of The Crowd

Barbara Giamanco recently shared this post from Business Insider

Russ Hall was one of the commenters in the thread who responded thus;

Barb, then I would suggest that “The Law of Large Numbers” may apply for people who don’t know you…that there is some evidence in a large number of endorsements of a particular skill, but much more variability (lack of accuracy) in just a few endorsements. What it depends on, of course, is that there are enough accurate endorsements from enough people who really do know you to create some “accuracy”.

… needless to say - it got me to thinking. Overall not a fan of the endorsement gaming that is running through linkedIN these days - but I wonder if Russ has a point. More investigation needed, because I KNOW it is not as simple as that :-)

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