Law Practice
Jan. 15, 2013
Juries and jars of jelly beans
An expirement: Put a bunch of jelly beans in a jar and invite your co-workers to guess away, and you'll find that the crowd beats out the individual guessers, time and again.
Matthew D. Umhofer
Spertus, Landes & Umhofer LLPPhone: (213) 394-7979
Email: matthew@umklaw.com
Georgetown University Law Center; Washington DC
My newly protracted commute recently led me to an iPhone app that has me thinking about juries and jelly beans.
The app is called "Waze." I log in at the start of my drive, tell it where I'm going, and start driving. The app tracks my progress and the progress of everyone else who's logged in and headed in the same direction. And it uses this aggregated information from the commuting crowd to suggest better, faster commuting routes while I'm driving. It's taken me awhile, but I've...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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