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Clip: Season 45 Episode 6 | 3m 38s
Crowds hold a predictive power that can have startling accuracy.
Aired: 01/24/18
Video has closed captioning.National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Draper. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS viewers.
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