What exactly happened when Francis Galton went to the livestock show?
Nearly every lecture, article, book, discussion, and PowerPoint presentation about the “Wisdom of Crowds” contains the story of Sir Francis Galton and the weight-judging contest at a country fair, if not mentioning it at the very beginning. There are two problems with the account of ‘Galton at the country fair.’ First, the story rings false […]
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