Wisdom of the Crowds competition - the answer
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QED Gold: Originally uploaded 24th June 2011
We reveal the answer to my Wisdom of the Crowds competition. I asked you to guess how many jellybeans were in a jar. How close was the wisdom of the crowd, but first we need to answer - which average should we use? |
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| Created: | 2011-11-14 11:59 |
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| Collection: | Quite Easily Done |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Dr J.R. Grime |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | maths; math; mathematics; problem; puzzle; wisdom of the crowd; Francis Galton; James Grime; David Spiegelhalter; statistics; probabillity; average; mean; mode; geometric; log-normal; normal distribution; logarithm; log; |
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