Pradeep Gunasekaran is a very smart technician in my lab.
Recently, he told me that one of his professors once challenged the class to estimate the number of small objects in a jar.
I suddenly remembered guessing the number of candies in a jar in a contest at the local corner grocery store when I was a kid.
After Pradeep explained that the average of the students’ guesses was very close to the correct answer, I thought: “What an interersting way to test the wisdom of the crowd-tweeps.