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Duke professors challenge term "miles per gallon"
The News & Observer (NC) ^
| June 19, 2008
| Eric Ferreri
Posted on 06/19/2008 11:50:26 AM PDT by MaestroLC
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To: 6SJ7
What do you mean keep it simple?
How else can we keep the unwashed yokels dazzled by out *Bullshit?
*BULLSHIT
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:05:30 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
To: 6SJ7
What do you mean keep it simple?
How else can we keep the unwashed yokels dazzled by out *Bullshit?
*BULLSHIT
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:05:43 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
To: Borges
Can't someone transfer one ratio to the other with some basic math?
Interesting. Where might one send one's children for instruction in this "math" technique?
/s :-)
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:06:00 PM PDT
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: MaestroLC
I think they prefer “kilometers per liter”. ;)
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:06:35 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
To: MaestroLC
I remember participating in those debates:
Joe: “How about we don’t think about miles per gallon anymore and start thinking about gallons per mile so that people really have to stop and think about it.”
Bill: “Wow, man that is like really deep. I see where you are coming from!.....You gonna hog that doobie all night?”
To: holdonnow
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:08:38 PM PDT
by
MaestroLC
("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
To: LearsFool
The best place would be your own kitchen table, IMHO.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:08:58 PM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Red Badger
And measure speed in “furlongs per fortnight”.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:10:23 PM PDT
by
wordsofearnest
("The fundamental solution (w/b) that there is no longer any need to immigrate")
To: MaestroLC
Some of us would prefer horsepower to be listed.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:10:38 PM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
To: MaestroLC
These guy would have a coronary if the new the gallons per mile a dragster or funny car got.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:10:41 PM PDT
by
Lx
((Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.))
To: MaestroLC
The two management professors ran experiments showing current "miles per gallon" terminology led consumers to think fuel consumption goes down at an even rate as efficiency improves. While the inverse would be so confusing as to prevent the consumer from making any assumptions...
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:11:37 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
To: MaestroLC
I guess they could use that when figuring the mileage of the M1A2 main battle tank.
0.6 miles per gallon
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:12:18 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
To: Da Coyote
...and still can’t pass an elementary math course. Which is why "new math" was invented...
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:12:51 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: MaestroLC
Stupid lib professors as they may well be, this is an overdue idea.
How many people know that the real difference between 14 and 18 mpg is the same as the difference between 30 mpg and 70?
The rest of the world uses fuel per distance for a reason.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:13:17 PM PDT
by
CGTRWK
To: ex 98C MI Dude
Do these people have a brain extraction done at their tenure hearing? a college professor from France will be renting my house next year, he will be teaching at Stanford. He said he was shocked at the tenure system in the US - he said they are so busy writing papers and trying to make tenure, no one is teaching anything.
To: MaestroLC
It's really to bad that so many political conservatives have to go on and be mentally conservative.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:16:31 PM PDT
by
mc6809e
To: ex 98C MI Dude
Old story in academia: There is a certain marine invertebrate that is free-swimming in its larval form, but when it becomes an adult, it attaches itself to a rock and filter-feeds. It then digests its central nervous system because it no longer needs it. This process is similar to getting tenure.
To: MaestroLC
I think some Duke professors have too much time on their hands!
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:16:51 PM PDT
by
lil'bit
To: MaestroLC
Duke evidently employs Dorks.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:17:43 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: Tanniker Smith
While the inverse would be so confusing as to prevent the consumer from making any assumptions... Did you read the article?
How can you say that the inverse is more confusing? The inverse allowed people to make better judgements.
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posted on
06/19/2008 12:19:42 PM PDT
by
mc6809e
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