To: SunkenCiv
"accounts for about 74 percent of the total variation"
About 74%! Reminds me of when Darwin wrote that the Wealden deposits were 306,662,400 years old. (On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, 1st edition)
It's either 74%, or it's not 74%. It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness.
To: chuck_the_tv_out
It's either 74%, or it's not 74%. It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness.This post is pure childishness.
11 posted on
05/31/2009 1:35:25 PM PDT by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness. Details, details.
You're right. "About 74%" implies that it falls between 73.5 and 74.5%.
"About 75% would (to me) imply that the value is somewhere between 70 and 80%.
Or, using the law of the WAG, 75% would imply a value somewhere between 50 and 100%.
19 posted on
05/31/2009 1:42:20 PM PDT by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
It's either 74%, or it's not 74%. It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness. "About 74%" is a perfectly legitimate way to express a more precise number like 73.89%.
To: chuck_the_tv_out; raybbr; Ole Okie; Hyzenthlay
I'm glad that's settled. ;')
100 posted on
05/31/2009 4:27:45 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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