Social Experiment time

[sactoking]

I'm running a little social experiment. It will be formatted thusly: I will provide you with a scenario. What I need from you is a range of values whereby you are 98% sure the true value will fall within your range.

For example, if the scenario were "How many people in Reno will die today" I would feel 98% sure that 0-5 people will die today, so my answer is '0-5'.

Your scenario: How many bonds did my employer write for the 2008 calendar year?

Thanks for your help!

 

[xanis]

about tree fiddy

 

[Leros]

Impossible to know since we know nothing about your employer.

 

[Platypus]

this thread is now about cottage cheese

 

[TuxDave]

0-1 billion

I like to be safe.

 

[Platypus]

Cottage cheese is a cheese curd product with a mild flavor. It is drained, but not pressed so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose. The curd is usually washed to remove acidity giving sweet curd cheese. It is not aged or colored. Different styles of cottage cheese are made from milks with different fat levels and in small curd or large curd preparations. Cottage cheese which is pressed becomes hoop cheese, farmer cheese, pot cheese or queso blanco.

 

[sactoking]

Originally posted by: Leros
Impossible to know since we know nothing about your employer.

That's the point.

 

[Leros]

.

 

[Kirby]

8 - 3

 

[James Bond]

0 - 1000000

How the hell can you ask someone to have 98% assurance? That's just an arbitrary percentage.

 

[Miramonti]

This forum is far more qualified to participate in anti-social experiments.

 

[Dear Summer]

0

your company doesn't write bonds

 

[nakedfrog]

I do not care for cottage cheese.

 

[chorb]

0

no new james bonds movies came out this year.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Cottage cheese is a cheese curd product with a mild flavor. It is drained, but not pressed so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose. The curd is usually washed to remove acidity giving sweet curd cheese. It is not aged or colored. Different styles of cottage cheese are made from milks with different fat levels and in small curd or large curd preparations. Cottage cheese which is pressed becomes hoop cheese, farmer cheese, pot cheese or queso blanco.

Curd products are a favorite of the nomadic tribes in the Gobi desert.

 

[OCGuy]

I am 60% sure that it would fall within the 98% range.

 

[ivan2]

a shit load... all that u need to know.

 

[Rubycon]

This is bound to fail since you've requested a range without defining a domain.

 

[Crusty]

Fail thread is fail.

 

[Q]

What the hell is this?

 

[sactoking]

Originally posted by: Crusty
Fail thread is fail.

Only because you asshats make it so. All I asked was for a simple uneducated guess. Why is that so hard? ATOT and ATPN give out unsolicited uneducated guesses and opinions all the time.

If a mod stumbles along, go ahead and lock.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: OCguy
I am 60% sure that it would fall within the 98% range.

Wait. You are going to die in Reno?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: Platypus
Cottage cheese is a cheese curd product with a mild flavor. It is drained, but not pressed so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose. The curd is usually washed to remove acidity giving sweet curd cheese. It is not aged or colored. Different styles of cottage cheese are made from milks with different fat levels and in small curd or large curd preparations. Cottage cheese which is pressed becomes hoop cheese, farmer cheese, pot cheese or queso blanco.

Curd products are a favorite of the nomadic tribes in the Gobi desert.

The curd size is the size of the "chunks" in the cottage cheese. The two major types of cottage cheese are small curd, high-acid cheese made without rennet, and popular large curd, low-acid cheese made with rennet. Rennet is an enzyme that speeds curdling and keeps the curd that forms from breaking up; adding it shortens the cheesemaking process, resulting in a lower acid and larger curd cheese, and reduces the amount of curd poured off with leftover liquid (the whey).[3] Sometimes large curd cottage cheese is called "chunk style".

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Less than eleventy billion.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: OCguy
I am 60% sure that it would fall within the 98% range.

Wait. You are going to die in Reno?

Maybe if Johnny Cash is there.