Quanty: An online game for eliciting the wisdom of the crowd

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Highlights：

• We designed an online game, Quanty to derive quantitative estimates.

• The wisdom of crowd is elicited by aggregating estimates of several people.

• Medians and Median absolute deviations of responses produced the greatest accuracy.

• Anyone can export Quanty’s data from the Quantygame.com website.

• Professionals can show their own pictures to elicit the wisdom of crowd.

摘要

•We designed an online game, Quanty to derive quantitative estimates.•The wisdom of crowd is elicited by aggregating estimates of several people.•Medians and Median absolute deviations of responses produced the greatest accuracy.•Anyone can export Quanty’s data from the Quantygame.com website.•Professionals can show their own pictures to elicit the wisdom of crowd.

论文关键词：Human computation,Wisdom of the crowd,Games,Quantitative magnitudes

论文评审过程：Available online 17 March 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.004