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Just finished watching a VSauce video. Got my curiosity running. I'm testing the "Wisdom In A Crowd" theory.
Basically it means that the average of a huge population is more accurate than the guess of just one person.
Here is a video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOucwX7Z1HU
Anyways, i'm trying to prove this true or false, so i went out and bought some skittles. I counted them into a quart container, and have taken some pictures of them.
I need YOU to guess the amount of skittles in this container, once the guessing has slowed down to a crawl/stopped, i will reveal the exact number and begin to average out the numbers to see if it's even close.
DO NOT scroll down and look at others guesses before making your own guess. That will skew everything. Make your guess and then post it, then look through others guesses.
Now i know this isn't going to be the most accurate as you can't spin the quart container around, or move them a little bit, or look at it from all angles, but it's still interesting.
>tldr; How many skittles are in this container?
Basically it means that the average of a huge population is more accurate than the guess of just one person.
Here is a video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOucwX7Z1HU
Anyways, i'm trying to prove this true or false, so i went out and bought some skittles. I counted them into a quart container, and have taken some pictures of them.
I need YOU to guess the amount of skittles in this container, once the guessing has slowed down to a crawl/stopped, i will reveal the exact number and begin to average out the numbers to see if it's even close.
DO NOT scroll down and look at others guesses before making your own guess. That will skew everything. Make your guess and then post it, then look through others guesses.
Now i know this isn't going to be the most accurate as you can't spin the quart container around, or move them a little bit, or look at it from all angles, but it's still interesting.
>tldr; How many skittles are in this container?
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