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UCI cognitive scientist uses crowdsourcing to predict celebrity deaths UC Irvine professor of cognitive sciences Michael Lee (pictured) and colleagues found that the collective opinions of users of Ranker—a website that solicits crowd opinions on a variety of topics—predicted recent celebrity deaths better than individual users, chance or age. Lee used algorithms developed by his research team to analyze lists provided by 27 users. Lee found that 99 celebrities were included in at least one list, and at the time of analysis, six of the 99 celebrities had passed away. Lee’s modeling included a list of all 99 celebrities in an order that combined user rankings socsci.uci.edu/node/16057
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:55:56 +0000

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