Predicting elections: Child's play!

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5918, 2009, Pages 1183-

  Antonakis, John ^a   Dalgas, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTION; FACIES; INTELLIGENCE; LEADERSHIP; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; PUBLIC OPINION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOGNOMY; POLITICS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61349086075     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167748     Document Type: Article

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12. We thank our university rectorate for support and J. P. Bonardi, M. Brulhart, F. Butera, S. Faulk, U. Hoffrage, P. Jacquart, F. Krings, R. Lalive, G. Palazzo, B. Sattler, C. Zehnder, and the OB group for helpful comments.