A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem

Dražen Prelec (), H. Sebastian Seung and John McCoy
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Dražen Prelec: Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
H. Sebastian Seung: Princeton University
John McCoy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2017, vol. 541, issue 7638, 532-535

Abstract: The wisdom of the crowd can be improved by using an algorithm that selects the answer that is more popular than people predict, rather than the answer that is most popular.

Date: 2017
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