If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
Do they have to agree on the answer?
If not, then you can add their experiences. They’ll share some but it’s a net plus.
If they do have to agree, then they can only answer when they have shared experiences, in which case it’d be a net negative.
It’s basically two arrays of binary numbers, either they know something or they don’t, and then you can do boolean algebra to get the kind of answer you want.
In reality you will encounter both situations, and by using dialogue, you can sort out the differences and achieve a higher rate of correct answers.
This way, two idiots can indeed answer more correctly than one expert. However it’s required that the idiots are aware of their own shortcomings.