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Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work

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Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy, say Raphael Silberzahn and Eric L. Uhlmann.

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  1. Raphael Silberzahn is assistant professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.,

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  2. Eric L. Uhlmann is associate professor of organizational behaviour at INSEAD in Singapore.,

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