Four Crowdsourcing Lessons from House MD
Another post I wrote about software testing and crowdsourcing from the uTest blog.
House MD, one of the most popular television shows in the US and globally, is a weekly medical mystery where a patient with a rare and unsolvable disease is diagnosed by Dr. Gregory House – the title character. Dr. House is a brilliant diagnostician who can solve almost any medical puzzle, but this past Monday the show featured an entirely different way of diagnosing a medical problem: crowdsourcing. Over the course of the episode, House’s team dealt with many advantages and disadvantages of crowdourcing while trying to diagnose a patient with a tricky disease.
Even though House is fiction, there’s a lot we can learn about crowdsourcing from the characters’ experiences. Here are four of my favorite crowdsourcing lessons from House MD. Be warned, MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW! Stop reading now if you don’t want the episode spoiled for you.
Update: The full episode is now available for US viewers on Hulu.
