Listen / read these stories by NPR and respond to the questions below:

• Kestenbaum, David. (Aug 20, 2015). Weighty issue: Cow guessing game helps to explain the stock market. NPR.Links to an external site. (http://www.npr.org/2015/08/20/432978431/wighty-issue-cow-guessing-game-helps-to-explain-the-stock-market)
• Spiegel, Alix. (Apr 2, 2014). So you think you're smarter than a CIA agent?NPR.Links to an external site. ( http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-you-think-youre-smarter-than-a-cia-agent)

Questions:

• Can you think of ways corporations might leverage this notion?
• Is there a way that companies like Amazon already use the "wisdom of the crowd" to try to predict your satisfaction in a product? How is this done? Is this a valid process? Why or why not?