Aaaah thanks for the explanation. PANEL of 10 humans, as in, they were all together. I parsed the phrase as "10 random people" > "average human" which made little sense.
I would expect 10 random people to do better than a committee of 10 people because 10 people have 10 chances to get it right while a committee only has one. Even if the committee gets 10 guesses (which must be made simultaneously, not iteratively) it might not do better because people might go along with a wrong consensus rather than push for the answer they would have chosen independently.