28. A device, comprising: a communications arrangement receiving guesstimates from a plurality of users in response to questions related to a predetermined topic; and a processor initializing at least one of i) nodes in a machine learning network and ii) connections between the nodes, to a predetermined strength value, the processor adjusting the predetermined strength value as a function of the choices, wherein the initialization is performed prior to any input of actual input and actual output into the network; wherein the network is a consensus network and the users are able to combine their own guesstimates with those of other users to develop and evaluate the network.
30. The device according to claim 28 , wherein the communications arrangement receives user information from each of the users, and the processor applies a weight to the guesstimates from a particular user as a function of the user information provided by the particular user.