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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

How is it possible to know you have “found” 15% of an unknown quantity. Don’t you have to have found all of something before you can determine a portion?


11 posted on 04/30/2010 5:04:03 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st
How is it possible to know you have “found” 15% of an unknown quantity.

It's similar to the theory used to calculate number os jobs saved or created...

12 posted on 04/30/2010 5:06:04 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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How is it possible to know you have “found” 15% of an unknown quantity.

It's that new math they've been teaching in publik skools since the '70's. See how handy it is?

13 posted on 04/30/2010 5:12:24 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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Don’t you have to have found all of something before you can determine a portion?

Not if you work for the government, ie, unemployment rate, census, climate change data, IRS, et al.................

15 posted on 04/30/2010 5:16:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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