National Crowdsourcing Project Designed to Better Predict World Events
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
If intelligence agencies could have accurately predicted the events of 9/11, imagine how world history would have changed. A new model for crowdsourcing predictions called Aggregative Contingent Estimation System (ACES) is transforming the way future events are forecast - combining the collective knowledge of many individual opinions in a unique way that improves accuracy beyond what any one person or small group of experts could provide.