Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Collective Intelligence or the Jelly Beans experiment

March 6th, 2008 - Session 5

Collective Intelligence deals with using the "wisdom of the crowd" to make very exact predictions. We made the Jelly Beans experiment - estimate the number of jelly beans in a sealed glas. The whole class made predictions and we had one clear winner - yeah, Paul - how did you estimate exactly the right number??? - and several close estimations.

Additional information on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwfISTI3CBo

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