Have a guess ....

5.5pt = ~3.12L = 3120 cubic cm

Pound coin is ~1.25 cubic cm.

Therefore 3120 / 1.25 = £2496 if they filled all available space.

Due to the wasted space of them being circular and piled inefficiently i'm going to knock 40% off that figure and go with:

£1498
 
The actual amount of coins in the jug was £1380


The winner is ...... the darjeeling with 1377 :D

Here's an abstract character with your prize :D

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So how many fruit machines, charity buckets and parking meters did you have to rob to collect that then :D
 
I wonder what the average of all the guesses is?

(I am not about to work it out just for now)

Wisdom of Crowds

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The classic wisdom-of-the-crowds finding involves point estimation of a continuous quantity. At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, eight hundred people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1% of the true weight of 1198 pounds.[3] This has contributed to the insight in cognitive science that a crowd's individual judgements can be modelled as a probability distribution of responses with the mean centred near the true mean of the quantity to be estimated.
 
Orionaut said:
I wonder what the average of all the guesses is?

(I am not about to work it out just for now)

Wisdom of Crowds

TL;DR version

The classic wisdom-of-the-crowds finding involves point estimation of a continuous quantity. At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, eight hundred people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1% of the true weight of 1198 pounds.[3] This has contributed to the insight in cognitive science that a crowd's individual judgements can be modelled as a probability distribution of responses with the mean centred near the true mean of the quantity to be estimated.
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That's great but the eleventybillion and tree fiddy might throw it off slightly :D
 
pmbuzz said:
That's great but the eleventybillion and tree fiddy might throw it off slightly :D
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True, I would (In this case) exclude the "Obvious" silly ones. However the weird thing is that with a sufficiently large sample of people the phenomena still works even if you include the stoopid guesses.

While I can sort of see why it works, it is still nevertheless fascinating that it does (And really well too!)

Remember it is median rather than mean as such
 
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