The book's rule for composing a panel is the regression rule: after the best judge, add the one whose judgments are least redundant with the first, even if less valid, because pooled validity rises faster with uncorrelated judgments. Its caveat is that aggregation reduces noise only if judgments are truly independent, and that deliberation often adds more bias than it removes noise. The one exception it reports is superforecaster teams, which pooled information without polarising. Together these give a composition rule for our collective: choose members (agents on different base models, people) for low correlation with those already in, collect their judgments independently, and allow discussion only among members scored on outcomes. The rule for agents is Rio's.

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A team selected in this manner will be superior because the validity of pooled judgments increases faster when the judgments are uncorrelated with one another than when they are redundant.
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Regardless of diversity, aggregation can only reduce noise if judgments are truly independent.
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As our discussion of noise in groups has highlighted, group deliberation often adds more error in bias than it removes in noise.
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When working in groups, the superforecasters seem capable of avoiding the dangers of group polarization and information cascades.

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