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Great video: yes, the crowd really is wicked smahht

July 1st, 2008 - Posted by: vanessa

Check out this video, singing praise for tools that tap people’s knowledge - whether using prediction markets to forecast everything from election results to American Idol winners to asking the audience tough questions answer on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.  They point out that people - collectively - perform consistently better than the pundits and experts.  Our post on prediction markets makes many of the same arguments.

Based on our last test of MixedInk, we’re convinced that our 30-headed pundit did better than any individual one of us could have alone!

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One Response to “Great video: yes, the crowd really is wicked smahht”

  1. Doretha Says:

    Interesting fact. I guess this finding can be developed as forecasting tool that I believe will be very useful to control the world politic and economy stabilization.

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