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surprisingly popular answer: a standalone construct

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Judgment and decision making

an answer chosen more often than respondents predicted it would be, used to pick the correct crowd answer even when the majority is wrong.

In judgment and decision making, surprisingly popular answer refers to an answer chosen more often than respondents predicted it would be, used to pick the correct crowd answer even when the majority is wrong. This meaning comes from Prelec (2017) in Nature.[1]

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judgment2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Prelec, D., Seung, H. S., & McCoy, J. (2017). A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem. Nature, 541(7638), 532-535. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21054

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