DebRD_ATL said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
JenPlateau said:Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
DebRD_ATL said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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