Group of 42 Sports Fans using Thinkscape Score in 89th Percentile of ESPN March Madness Contest

On March 20th 2024, Unanimous AI used Thinkscape to enable a group of 42 randomly selected basketball fans to form collective superintelligence aimed at predicting the outcome of the NCAA College Basketball Tournament. As a group, the participants deliberated in real-time to make predictions for the full set of games. The group did this by conversationally debating in Thinkscape which games were most likely to end in an upset. We then used the output from Thinkscape to fill out a bracket in the ESPN March Madness Contest and published our picks for the world to see.

Of course, Thinkscape does not just help large groups converge on optimized insights, it provides detailed analytics after every deliberation, revealing exactly how the conversation converged on the solutions reached. This makes Thinkscape a powerful tool for market researchers capturing insights from large numbers of consumers and for enterprise organizations generating forecasts from large business teams. Here an example of one of the many of analytics charts generated for the group’s deliberations about March Madness:

So, how did the Collective Superintelligence of 42 sports fans do?

With all of the games now completed, we can confirm that by deliberating conversationally in Thinkscape, this group of 42 randomly selected sports fans (who collectively should have averaged in the 50th percentile) produced a bracket that performed in the Top 11% nationally in the ESPN prediction contest.

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