Blink vs The Wisdom of Crowds

 
Slate has a weeklong dialogue between my two favourite non-fiction authors - Malcolm Gladwell (author Blink) and James Surowiecki (author of The Wisdom of Crowds). They debate the themes of each others books - that crowd behaviour is a more acurate predictor than individuals and "thin-slicing": the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and people based on very narrow 'slices' of experience.