Galton undoubtedly thought that the average guess of the group would be way oft mark. But Galton was wrong. The crowd guessed that the ox would weight 1197 pounds. After it had been slaughtered and dressed, it weight 1198pounds. In other words, the crowd's judgment was essentially perfect. Perhaps breeding did not mean so much after all. Galton wrote later. "The result semester creditable to the trustworthiness of of a democratic judgement than might have been expected." That's, to say the least, an understatement.