BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd
What it is
Marcus du Sautoy of the BBC demonstrates the wisdom of the crowd, showing that averaging many guesses of jelly beans in a jar lands near the true count.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a quick, convincing demonstration of crowd estimation when discussing aggregated judgment.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2013, last 2016
What HN commenters said
“start at 2:00 if TLDW”
Averaging 160 jelly bean guesses lands near actual count.
botterworkshop, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund”
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Topics: crowd wisdom, estimation, jelly beans, marcus du sautoy, statistics
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