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To: 21twelve
But most times if you have six geologists you’ll have six different answers!”

That person is a piker- you'd get between 10-12 different opinions

1,097 posted on 02/15/2017 5:00:20 PM PST by Godzilla (1/20/2017)
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To: Godzilla

LOL! Very true (Well, it looks like x, but, wait, there might be some y in there so maybe it’s Z?)

I recall in geology class the tests were to pass around a rock sample and had to say all the minerals in it, percentages, etc. and then name the rock. So maybe 6 or 7 line items, but if you got anyone of them wrong the entire answer (rock) was wrong. And probably 25 rocks per test in fifty minutes.

I recall one where most of us figured on something like 10 to 15% quartz or something. Most of us got it wrong. The professor says “Yeah it looks like 10%, but under thin section (which we didn’t have) it is really about 9 percent - so that’s why you got it all wrong.”

I’m guessing there was some lesson in that.


1,100 posted on 02/15/2017 5:12:25 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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