Crowd Wisdom Better At Predictions Than Top CIA Analysts 136
First time accepted submitter tkalfigo (1448133) writes "The Good Judgment Project is an experiment put together by three well-known psychologists and some people inside the intelligence community. What they aim to prove is that average, ordinary people in large groups and access just to Google search can predict far more accurately events of geopolitical importance than smart intelligence analysts with access to actual classified information. In fact there is a clearly identified top 1 percent of the 3000 predictors group, who have been identified as super-forecasters: people whose predictions are reportedly 30 percent better than intelligence officers."
Old news (Score:4, Informative)
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This has been known since the 60s. Only reason it keeps cropping up is the ego of the people involved in analysis, and the organizational inertia of the agencies involved.