# kaal:claim:3782191-035

**Claim.** Decentralization makes truth discovery more accurate, more reliable, and more efficient, because averaging results across diverse contributors, like ten news companies reporting a story or ten researchers using ten instruments, is more accurate than repetition by a single source.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- measurement and reporting with diverse independent contributors

**Source quote.**

> The most efficient markets, the most liquid markets, have high transaction rates of many goods moving between many small players. De- centralization makes truth discovery more accurate, more reliable, and more effi- cient.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Preface to* (2021), Qualities of decentralization: stability, efficiency, versatility, page 20

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `b0bf0529c3cf69839879bc4da476714efee2717a4beb768bd5c859b810e6174e` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Preface%20to.pdf

**Topics.** research-methods

**Keywords.** truth-discovery, wisdom-of-the-crowd, diversity, measurement

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