Identify some business applications in which judgmental forecasting techniques such as historical analogy and the Delphi method would be useful.

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Part $1$

Select all that apply.

A$.$

An investment firm that trades futures analyzes a variety of economic indicators prior to the global financial crisis of $2008$ in order to make predictions about when another significant economic downturn will occur.

B$.$

The CEO of a$$ self$-$driving car startup would like to study the potential pace of future development of artificial intelligence.

C$.$

A polling company is looking to survey the opinions of political pundits to make predictions about the$$ long$-$term ramifications of a partisan political climate.

D$.$

The analytics department of a baseball team uses past player data in order to make forecasts about the locations of batted balls for an upcoming opponent.

E$.$

A streaming music service uses patterns in customer data to make song recommendations.