Management Craft

Jack B. Soll

Researcher

Decision-sciences researcher, at INSEAD when he co-wrote the averaging-principle work with Richard Larrick; his research is on how people combine and misweight advice.

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Intuitions About Combining Opinions: Misappreciation of the Averaging PrinciplePaper · 2003Larrick and Soll's 2003 demonstration that people hold the wrong theory about combining opinions: most expect the average of two judges to be no better than the average judge, when in fact it beats the average judge whenever their errors fall on opposite sides of the truth.