Thin-Slice Accuracy Depends on the Wisdom of Crowds: Aggregate Judgments Outperform Individual Judgments when Inferring Athletic Performance Based on Nonverbal Behavior.

The present paper aims to resolve ambiguous findings on the accuracy or inaccuracy of human judgments based on sparse information by arguing that accurate thin-slice judgments can be understood as driven by the wisdom of the crowd. To test this hypothesis, participants estimated the performance of t...

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Published in:	Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 205 - 227
Main Authors:	Furley, Philip, Wunderlich, Fabian, Großhaus, Laura, Schweizer, Geoffrey
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2025
Subjects:	Body language Judgment (Psychology) Psychology of athletes Pearson correlation (Statistics) Descriptive statistics Track & field Mathematical models Athletic ability Confidence intervals Data analysis software Theory Motion capture (Human mechanics)
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