Crowdsourcing or Educated Guessing? Election Forecasting, Sophistication, and Aggregation

• In Event: Perceptions of Government

Brief Overview

The proposed article tests a number of strategies to improve upon the raw aggregation of citizens’ election forecasts using data collected through Datagochi, a web application predicting individuals’ vote choice according to their lifestyle.

Authors

• Philippe Mongrain, McGill University

• Nadjim Fréchet, University of Montreal

• Brian Thompson, Universite Laval

• Yannick Dufresne, Universite Laval