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Retesting the wisdom of crowds

Nov 30th, 2009
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A couple of years ago, I undertook a quick experiment, focused around the Iowa caucus of 2008. Using data from the Washington Post’s The Fix blog, I compared the best estimates produced by of political experts, opinion poll information and an average of the guesses of random punters on the blog’s comment thread. As it [...]