{"id":162,"date":"2006-11-02T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-12-19T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T11:07:48","slug":"do-meetings-make-for-worse-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Do meetings make for worse decisions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPROVING DECISION MAKING BY NOT MEETING FACE-TO-FACE<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"faceof.jpg\" id=\"image161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/faceof.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Scott Armstrong of Wharton has recently polled the mailing lists of decision experts looking for evidence that face-to-face meetings lead to more accurate forecasts and better decisions than alternatives such as virtual teams or prediction markets. He found none. Evidence-based Armstrong comes down on the side of the prediction that face to face meetings are less effective than more efficient alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read the readable <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.wharton.upenn.edu\/ideas\/pdf\/Armstrong\/WisdomofCrowds2.pdf\">article<\/a> in <em>Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Photo credit: Gary King&#8217;s MatchIt Software: http:\/\/gking.harvard.edu\/matchit\/<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPROVING DECISION MAKING BY NOT MEETING FACE-TO-FACE Scott Armstrong of Wharton has recently polled the mailing lists of decision experts looking for evidence that face-to-face meetings lead to more accurate forecasts and better decisions than alternatives such as virtual teams or prediction markets. He found none. Evidence-based Armstrong comes down on the side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-2C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}