Intuitions About Combining Opinions: Misappreciation of the Averaging Principle

Published: Mar 10, 2006
Abstract
Averaging estimates is an effective way to improve accuracy when combining expert judgments, integrating group members' judgments, or using advice to modify personal judgments. If the estimates of two judges ever fall on different sides of the truth, which we term bracketing, averaging must outperform the average judge for convex loss functions, such as Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD). We hypothesized that people often hold incorrect beliefs about...
Paper Details
Title
Intuitions About Combining Opinions: Misappreciation of the Averaging Principle
Published Date
Mar 10, 2006
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