Feeding the five thousand -- or was it three? Researchers claim most crowd estimations are unreliable

Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 02:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The public should view crowd estimation with scepticism, say the authors of a study published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association, as they suggest more reliable alternatives to current estimating methods.

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