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paying someone to watch talent so you don't have to gamble blind.
means the systematic practice of observing, evaluating, and reporting on people or terrain before you commit resources to them.
from military origin — scouts rode ahead of armies to map enemy positions before the main force moved; sports and business borrowed the logic wholesale.
word rootfrom old french escouter, to listen
baden-powellturned military scouting into a youth movement in 1907
nfl combinescores 40-yard dashes down to hundredths of seconds
moneyball twistdata eventually out-scouted the scouts themselves