Crowd-wisdom parlor examples (ox weight, jellybeans) are problematic test cases because they involve unimportant questions and offer no incentive to get it right, whereas the harder, high-stakes questions are matters of judgment where the answer is difficult to know even after the fact.
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Russ RobertsEvidence Quote
“it's not very important to get those numbers accurately... it's not clear in those settings whether those are the right problems to be asking people”
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