Forecasting elections with mere recognition from small, lousy samples: A comparison of collective recognition, wisdom of crowds, and representative polls

We investigated the extent to which the human capacity for recognition helps to forecast political elections: We compared naive recognition-based election forecasts computed from convenience samples of citizens' recognition of party names to (i) standard polling forecasts computed from represen...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Gaissmeier, Julian N. Marewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2011-02-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/11/10608/jdm10608.pdf