What are examples of collective intelligence?
In 1906 the British scientist Francis Galton discovered this phenomenon more or less by mistaken on a rural market. He had 800 people with different educations guessing the weight of an Ox. The average guess was 1197 pounds and surprisingly the exact weight was 1198 pounds. While his actual goal was to prove the stupid-ity of the masses the outcome was the complete opposite, the intelligence of the masses. In the popular TV Show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” 91% of the audience gets the right answer, where in an experiment with experts under the pressure of time only 65% of the questions were answered correctly.
