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 naïve recognition-based election forecasts computed from convenience samples of citizens’ recognition of party names to (i) standard polling forecasts computed from representativ...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl, Oliver Vitouch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2011-02-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500002102/type/journal_article