  This note reexamines the data from a weight-judging competition described in
an article by Francis Galton published in 1907. Following the correction of
some errors, it is shown that this forecasting competition is an interesting
precursor of two more recent developments in the statistical forecasting
literature. One is forecast combination, with the mean forecast here exactly
coinciding with the outcome, and the second is the use of two-piece frequency
and probability distributions to describe asymmetry.
