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Well, then it's not common to bc -- I correctly knew the pop of the US (~ 300 million), but thought the world pop was 3 B instead of ~ 6.8 B.
Currently:
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
The Wiki. definition (Dept. of Ed. and Skills (UK) and National Ctr. for Ed. Stats. (USA)) agrees w/ J. C.'s.
bc cleaning up his >17k inbox msgs.
On 2008, Feb 29, , at 07:40, Rick Tarara wrote:
Common now John, the population of the country you live in, the world you
live on, that cities have millions of people--thus is not specialized
knowledge. These numbers effect almost every field of study--if only to
estimate how many books your memoirs might sell! You are sounding like an
apologist for ignorance. ;-(
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "John M Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>
This question is not a test of innumeracy, except possibly at the ends
of the spectrum. It is a test of crystallized knowledge. A real test
for numeracy is to have people compare numbers like 0.5 and 3/8. The
population of a given area is what might be called common shared
knowledge.
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