Invitation to WoCCAP | Wisdom of the Crowd - Crowd Analysis Project

[Michael Kirchler]

Dear colleagues

We are launching an exciting new project and we would like to invite you to participate in: it’s a crowd analysis project to explore which aggregation mechanisms best harness the “wisdom of the crowd” to predict future outcomes. Over a period of 6 months, we will each month collect 16 predictions (4 each in 4 domains - politics, economics, sports and climate) by 640 people from the general population. Participating researcher’s tasks is to submit an aggregation mechanism to aggregate these many predictions to one aggregate outcome.

Call for Participation and Registration

The Call for participation can be found here and you can find further information, including registration details, at https://woccap.com/.

Consortium Authorship and Prize Money

We hope for many participants, so please spread the word - the entry hurdles are low, the webpage is set up to pretest the aggregation mechanisms and the total workload can be one working day (can also be more if someone invests a lot of time to optimize his/her algorithm). All researchers receive, of course, consortium authorship and the most successful research teams can win a total of up to EUR 10.000.

All the best,

The project coordinators
Robert Böhm (U of Vienna), Igor Grossman (U of Waterloo), Jürgen Huber, Christian König-Kersting, Michael Kirchler, and Yana Litovsky (all U of Innsbruck)