For most of history, opinions were debated. Today, they are priced 💸 That shift did not happen overnight. In 1907, statistician Francis Galton attended a county fair where nearly 800 participants were invited to guess the weight of an ox. Each estimate reflected a different level of knowledge, intuition, or simple guesswork, and the results varied widely. But when Galton analyzed the entries, the average came out to 1,197 pounds, just one pound away from the actual weight. This became known