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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2011-02-01
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Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/11/10608/jdm10608.pdf |