The wisdom of ignorant crowds: Predicting sport outcomes by mere recognition
The collective recognition heuristic is a simple forecasting heuristic that bets on the fact that people’s recognition knowledge of names is a proxy for their competitiveness: In sports, it predicts that the better-known team or player wins a game. We present two studies on the predictive power of r...
Main Authors: | Stefan M. Herzog, Ralph Hertwig, Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl, Oliver Vitouch |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2011-02-01
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Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500002096/type/journal_article |
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