<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">We are launching an exciting new project and we would like to invite you to participate. It is a <b>crowd analysis project to explore which aggregation mechanisms best harness the “wisdom of the crowd” to predict future outcomes</b>. Over a period of 6 months, we will collect monthly predictions in 4 domains (politics, economics, sports and climate) by 640 people from the general population. Participating researchers will submit an aggregation mechanism to aggregate the predictions (in each domain) to one aggregate outcome. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none">Call for Participation and Registration</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The <b>Call for participation</b> can be found <a href="https://woccap.com/participate/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(23,90,226)">here</span></a> and you can find further information, including registration details, at <a href="https://woccap.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(23,90,226)">https://woccap.com/</span></a>.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none">Consortium Authorship and Prize Money</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">We hope for many participants, so please spread the word — the entry hurdles are low, the webpage is set up to pretest the aggregation mechanisms and the total workload can be as short as one working day (or longer, if someone invests a lot of time to optimize his/her algorithm). <b>All researchers will receive consortium authorship and the most successful research teams (based on the accuracy of the aggregated predictions) can win a total of up to EUR 10.000</b>.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">All the best,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);min-height:17px"><span style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The project coordinators</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Robert Böhm (U of Vienna), Igor Grossman (U of Waterloo), Jürgen Huber, Christian König-Kersting, Michael Kirchler, and Yana Litovsky (all U of Innsbruck)</span></p></div>