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How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)

2024-04-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·17m 37s ·by NPR
How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)
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About this episode

This episode originally ran in 2015. About one hundred years ago, a scientist and statistician named Francis Galston came upon an opportunity to test how well regular people were at answering a question. He was at a fair where lots of people were guessing the weight of an ox, so he decided to take t