The wisdom of crowds: What smart cities can learn from a dead ox and live fish

ScienceDaily
Jan 14, 2020, 4:00 pm162 ptsTrending
In 1906, Francis Galton was at a country fair where attendees had the opportunity to guess the weight of a dead ox. Galton took the guesses of 787 fair-goers and found that the average guess was only one pound off of the correct weight -- even when individual guesses were off base.

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