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Collective problem decomposition improves the wisdom of deliberative crowds

2026-05-05

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<p>Understanding when and why social interaction improves human judgment is a central question in the behavioural sciences. We examine whether collective accuracy improves when groups break complex estimation problems into simpler components and generate approximate intermediate estimates, a reasoning strategy we call Collective Fermi Estimation. Across three experiments analysing more than 1,000 online group deli...

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Literature Corpus work: 1a81ca9b-b6ea-5d4b-92bc-e4d101c1900a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5xyze_v4

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