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  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Computational Social Science

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  • Reliable forecasting of public health outcomes is crucial, especially during global pandemics like COVID-19.
  • Current methods for infectious disease forecasting have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conduct the first large-scale, long-term experiment in crowd-forecasting infectious disease outbreaks.
  • To evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of crowd-forecasting compared to individual predictions.

Main Methods:

  • A 15-month experiment involving 562 volunteers forecasting 61 questions across 19 diseases.
  • Utilized best-practice adaptive algorithms to aggregate crowd forecasts.
  • Compared crowd forecasts against individual participant predictions.

Main Results:

  • Crowd forecasts were well-calibrated, accurate, and timely.
  • Aggregated crowd forecasts consistently outperformed individual forecasters.
  • Demonstrated the 'wisdom of crowds' phenomenon in infectious disease prediction.

Conclusions:

  • Crowd forecasting is a viable and effective tool for predicting infectious disease outbreaks.
  • This method can complement traditional disease surveillance and modeling approaches.
  • Enhances evidence-based decision-making for public health interventions.