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Re: Percents, Per Se
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 14 May 2001 18:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
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> > Our society tends to be quite liberal with the use of percentage figures to
> > back up a supposed presupposition or argument. Did anyone see that Nova
> > episode about meteors? "We don't know how many [large] meteors there are in
> > the solar system, but we've discovered about 10% of them." Eh?
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> That's fabulous! I read an article back in '92 that proclaimed we'd
> already discovered 90% of the world's oil.
Grin.
When in fact we had already discovered 100% of it! At least 100% of that
which had been discovered at that time. :-)
Aren't the "proven reserves" larger now than they were then? Not that I know
what that means, actually, it's just a factoid I heard bandied about.
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