Member Sentiment
Sentiment includes multiple files from same member doing "what if" stuff, not reflecting actual opinion on judgments. Also need to add judgments on PTPM, taxes and # shares. Suggest adding button for analyst to "post" her/his "best and final" SSG for inclusion into the Member Sentiment. Default being not included.

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Liz Peterson commented
Member Sentiment is a nice tool in theory, but it is not very useful in practice when you have multiple outlandish values skewing the member averages. I understand playing around with the SSG, but some of these are beyond extreme. For example, Shopify (SHOP) has one MS's estimated high price $1,403,750.06. I doubt very much that even an aggressively optimistic forecast should result in a high price over $1mil. Also there appear to be several repeats of the same study with the exact same figures done over the same day. I understand doing group studies and having repeats, etc. but when you have 17 MS's all estimating the high price to be $162,005.53 then you are unnaturally skewing the averages. Maybe there can be a cap somewhere to eliminate obvious multiple studies or unrealistic numbers. This is being presented as a tool for inexperienced users to compare their judgements with the group's and while I think that's a very helpful resource I don't think it's going to benefit anyone when it shows weird numbers that an inexperienced user may not be savvy enough to realize at first glance.
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Dave Bur commented
Do you mean something like http://www.investing.com/traders/sentiment-outlook ?