It seems way off for my area (Boston). It's prediction for me is about 15K low and I know I'm fairly underpaid based on offers I've received from other companie

It seems way off for my area (Boston). It's prediction for me is about 15K low and I know I'm fairly underpaid based on offers I've received from other companies (I like where I am and am fine w/ the low salaries). I found a similar pattern when I went to do predictions, the crowd's wisdom simply didn't seem to match up with the reality that I have seen. And of course, as the GP stated, once I started getting dinged for guessing higher than the predicted score, I started lowering my predictions. All the scoring system managed to accomplish was to drive my predictions closer to the standard data, which seems like a bad way to motivate people to give honest answers.