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(@rich-leu)
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in an attempt to explain a problem with the survey you were conducting for them?

The Lies of Science Writing

 
Posted : December 31, 2010 4:08 pm
(@paden-cash)
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"The problem is rarely in the math"....
Quote from some obscure government surveyor..

I make a point to avoid conversations with clients about mathematics.

 
Posted : December 31, 2010 4:34 pm
(@dave-karoly)
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sometimes the problem is simple subtraction...

2010 minus 1949 = 61 years.

 
Posted : December 31, 2010 4:45 pm
(@stephen-johnson)
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> in an attempt to explain a problem with the survey you were conducting for them?
>
> The Lies of Science Writing

NO

 
Posted : December 31, 2010 5:59 pm
(@just-mapit)
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Yes...I lied to a client....

told him I would not sue. I did and found out judgements are only worth the paper they're written on. Guess he had the last laugh.

 
Posted : December 31, 2010 6:13 pm
(@perry-williams)
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Yup

I always tell them I love their lot. Even if it's a craphole.

 
Posted : January 1, 2011 9:29 pm
(@bill93)
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Einstein said that things should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler.

A very good guideline. Sometimes analogies are good, but if they are not presented as oversimplifications the reader will go away with a false idea.

 
Posted : January 2, 2011 7:26 am