Subjective judgmental forecasts by knowledgeable persons are often used to obtain aggregated forecasts. The total forecast error results from two effects: the error associated with each particular estimate and the covariance between estimates. A behavioral model is presented and then data from two industrial situations and one controlled experiment are analyzed to determine the significance of both sources of error.
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