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Collective problem decomposition drives the wisdom of deliberative crowds

2025-10-02

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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 accuracy increases when groups break problems into parts and generate approximate solutions, a process we call Collective Fermi Estimation. We tested this idea across three studies by analysing over 1,000 online group deliberations in text chatrooms. Study 1 (N=500) shows t...

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Literature Corpus work: 9704cd19-9714-56ee-92fa-8ccfa613ec5a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5xyze_v1

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