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Wicked problems represent a class of problems so difficult, often people cannot determine if a proposed solution will solve the problem or not. Human computation offers a potential to solve these problems by incorporating a variety of worldviews, but first the solvers must agree on the problem they are solving.
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Thomsen, D. (2013). Solving Wicked Problems. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_22
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