More Is Probably More – Forecasting Accuracy and Number of Forecasters on Metaculus

TLDR

  • Metaculus is a prediction platform that collects and aggregates predictions from users on a wide range of questions
  • An increase in the number of forecasters seems to lead to an improvement of the Metaculus community prediction. I believe this effect is real, but due to confounding effects, the analysis presented here might overestimate the improvement gained. 
  • That improvement of the Metaculus community prediction seems to be approximately logarithmic, meaning that doubling the number of forecasters seems to lead to
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