The ballot-box

Galton, F. (1907). The ballot-box. Nature, 509-510.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1907

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/075509e0matched

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• Wisdom of the Crowds
  • In so doing it converts a coordination nightmare into a statistical estimation task with known properties.

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