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SessileNomad

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Posted at: 7/4/09 04:20 AM

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About somthing thats prety stupid

somone asked the population of earth, i said probly around 4 billion, and my friend said probly around 8 billion

the answer was about 6 billion

so i was like huh we were both wrong and he says

"but your more wrong"

does that fucking matter, either way were both wrong

the resulting argument branched off in many different direction but it prety much all boiled down to this...

NG, when speaking about numbers/math/stats, if your not 100% right, are you more right than anyone else, or are you both simply 100% wrong?

answers plez
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Sometimes, depending on your guesses and what the actual answer is, you can be more or less wrong. It all really depends on the context, too. If the correct answer to a question is, let's say, 10, then the person who guessed 3 would be "more" wrong than the person who guessed closer. Context, again, comes into play and what is actually being discussed. Sure, they'd both be wrong, but we can pull the "at least" card here, as in "at least he was closer than you."


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the only people who care if they are "more right" and "better" are those who are afraid of being seen as inferior, of are insecure about their superiority.

It doesn't matter whose "more right" just stop arguing like two year olds


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Posted at: 7/4/09 04:25 AM

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You're actually both equally wrong, as 6 is the average of 4 and 8.

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At 7/4/09 04:20 AM, SessileNomad wrote: "but your more wrong"

You were both about 2 billion off, so you were both wrong by about the same amount.


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why are you taking about world population... when you could be talking about getting laid?

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What are you both fucking 12?

If you weren't so dumb you would have both known the correct answer and had nothing the argue about.

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your both wrong. ..somehow I spculate this is somehow related dto high school drama, but I didnt do my reasearch if you were even in that age spectrum...

...still, ignore the dumbasses.

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If you go by The Price is Right rules, your friend is more wrong since you bid without going over.

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You both are fucking retards.

You guys are perfect for each other, don't brake up you guys' friendship.

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Posted at: 7/4/09 09:41 PM

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At 7/4/09 04:27 AM, Brass wrote: What are you both fucking 12?

nope, thanks for askin though

If you weren't so dumb you would have both known the correct answer and had nothing the argue about.

we werent fighting about the answer, we were fighting about whether or not, if while speaking about numbers and stats, there is a "more wrong" or if your 100% wrong

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At 7/4/09 04:20 AM, SessileNomad wrote: "but your more wrong"

does that fucking matter, either way were both wrong

In this case, you were both equally wrong, since the difference between your estimates and the actual answer was two billion for each of you.

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At 7/4/09 04:20 AM, SessileNomad wrote: the answer was about 6 billion

Think 6.7 billion.


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The only way someone could be "more wrong" then someone else is if someone else's answer was partly true.

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You were both equally close to the number. In mathematical order, when there is an equilibrium of numbers the answer rounds to the higher number. Like when rounding 4.5 to the nearest whole number you would say "5". However, it still does not change the fact that both of your answers where equally distant from the answer which makes you both as wrong as each other.

But the answer is more around 7 billion, but certainly over 6 billion so either way you were still wrong.

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In real life, alot of things have to be approximated. Where I'm at now in maths, almost everything which real applications involves approximations, which is disappointing.

Even the population of the Earth has to be approximated. There is no easy way they could know the exact population, so they look for the best approximation they can. Which would mean that, if you were further off, you were really more wrong.

Then again, your friend was ridiculously wrong too, and most people know the world's population to a much better degree (last I heard it was somewhere around 6.5 billion, not sure how right that is anymore). So you're both stupid, for not knowing the population of Earth, and for arguing about it.

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Your friend was closer because it is actually a little over 6 billion. Meaning you were 2.? billion over and he was only 1.?. And yes, it does matter.

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