Enhancing decision making with crowdsourced forecasting
Warfighters, the intelligence community, and policy analysts across government confront complex questions that test their best analytical techniques. RFI delivers collective, diverse insights from a global community of RAND analysts and external forecasters to augment decision analysis.
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FEATURED RESEARCH
Forecasting on Africa for U.S. security policy
RAND recently launched an initiative to pursue research and analysis on key under-examined security issues affecting Africa. RFI is working with the Africa Research team to elicit crowd forecasts on some of the urgent areas of policymaker concern.
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TRENDING QUESTIONS |
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Will Iran launch missiles or conduct an airstrike against U.S. forces in the next six months? |
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“Forecasting forces me to assess my own biases going into an issue. I’m also constantly surprised by the ways the other forecasters think about factors going into their forecasts -- it is so easy to get trapped in our epistemic bubbles and crowd forecasting helps reorient our thinking.”
— Fiona Kastel, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation ("3ie")
“I learn more than I ever thought I would about some of the most important issues facing the U.S., while also influencing decisions on the same topics.”
— Anthony Cordetti, Cambridge Associates
