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Data collected by the NPR podcast Planet Money to the question, "How much does this cow weigh?". This is a replication of the Galton paper "Vox Populi" which cites guesses of cow's weight from a county fair to illustrate the "wisdom of crowds".
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A data frame with 17184 rows and 2 columns.
name | type | description |
guess | "numeric" | Response to the question, "How much does this cow weigh?". The weights are in pounds. |
error | "numeric" | Difference (in pounds) between the guess and the weight of 1,355 pounds. |
Quoctrung Bui, "17,205 People Guessed The Weight Of A Cow. Here's How They Did.", Planet Money, August 7, 2015. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/07/429720443/17-205-people-guessed-the-weight-of-a-cow-heres-how-they-did.
Jacob Goldstein, "How Much Does This Cow Weigh?," Planet Money, July 17, 2015.
VoxPopuli
for the data from original Galton paper which inspired
this data collection.
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