The strengths and weaknesses of crowds to address global problems

SB Broomell, CP Davis-Stober - … on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Global climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of misinformation on social
media are just a handful of highly consequential problems affecting society. We argue that …

[HTML][HTML] Introduction to the special issue on judgment and decision research on the wisdom of the crowds.

DV Budescu, Y Grushka-Cockayne, JB Soll - Decision, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The benefits of relying on crowds of experts, judges, and even crowds of laypeople, when
faced with uncertainty, have long fascinated researchers and practitioners alike (Clemen & …

The Joint Weighted Average (JWA) Operator

SB Broomell, C Wagner - International Conference on Soft Methods in …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Information aggregation is a vital tool for human and machine decision making in
the presence of uncertainty. Traditionally, approaches to aggregation broadly diverge into …

The Joint Weighted Average (JWA)

SB Broomell¹, C Wagner - Combining, Modelling and Analyzing …, 2024 - books.google.com
Information aggregation is a vital tool for human and machine decision making in the
presence of uncertainty. Traditionally, approaches to aggregation broadly diverge into two …

The collective wisdom of behavioral game theory

S Huang, R Golman - Economic Theory, 2024 - Springer
We apply an algorithm from the wisdom-of-crowds literature to optimally combine behavioral
game theory models to more accurately predict strategic choice in one-shot, simultaneous …

Getting more wisdom out of the crowd: The case of competence-weighted aggregates

M Goedde-Menke, E Diecidue, A Jacobs… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper shows that group discussions can serve as an instrument to improve individuals'
calibration, which in turn strongly increases the accuracy of competence-weighted, statistical …

A Regularized Weighting Model of Judgment Aggregation

S Huang, R Golman, S Broomell - Available at SSRN 3885196, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In principle, information about forecasters' past performance can be used to weight their
forecasts to construct an optimal (most accurate) aggregate prediction. In practice, however …