The Wisdom of the Crowds
A while ago I wrote about the book "The Wisdom of the Crowds" and, more to the point, about the experiment "The jellybean challenge" associated with it. I wrote then the experiment would probably fail. It ran until somewhere in august, the website displays the following eversince:
"Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wisdom of Crowds jelly bean challenge. Please check back soon for the contest results."
Now publishing the result is quite an easy task, not one that would last months. So I was probably right, someone did guess the exact number of beans. They should have let someone with at least half a brain devise the experiment (or trust it to the wisdom of the crowds ofcourse ;)). Whether or not this is true, they ought to come clean.
It is a pitty though, the Wisdom of the Crowds thesis deserves better and a better experiment (one that would actually support their claim) can be easilly devised (use a billion times more beans).
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