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If someone asks a large enough number of people to guess the number of candies in a jar, the averaged answer is likely to be very close to the correct amount. True, occasionally someone may guess closer to the actual number. This might work for decision-making in decentralized job marketplaces like <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/aworker" target="_blank">Aworker</a> too. As you repeat the experiment, the same person doesn’t become better every time, the crowd is smarter than any individual. <strong>This finding is counterintuitive.</strong>