Amajor benefit of social software is the ability to harness the "wisdom of crowds" that is also referred to as select one:
a. collective intelligence
b. creative commons
c. consensus democracy
d. collaborative filtering
e. preference elicitation

A) collective intelligence

Explanation: Collective intelligence is the intelligence that is gained from the collection of people indulging into the making efforts, competition, etc to agree on common decision made with collaboration.

Social software is the platform that is used for sharing information , data, fact etc as well as interacting."Wisdom of crowd "can be referred as the collective intelligence as it describes about the intelligence of many people (crowd).

Other options are incorrect because they are not related with a group of people using the intelligence to lead to a collective result.Thus, the correct option is option(A).

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