From Florida Trend:
"People love numbers, even when they are meaningless."
-- Hugh Willoughby, of Florida International University and a former forecaster at NOAA, referring to hurricane predictions.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts the 2008 hurricane season will be about average in terms of the number and strength of named storms. But it is down playing its prediction of the actual numbers.
Magnus Carlsen chess match against the wisdom of crowds ends in a draw
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Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played against 143,000 people in a single
game. The…
*Tags:* Associated Press, chess, crowds, Magnus Carlsen
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