Why are we rounding?
eta -
I could understand the "5" thing if instead of saying "pick any number in the range" we were going to offer choices of
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50... 100
But what's the sense of rounding to the nearest 5?
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Cindy - Mar 13, 2003 12:17:54 pm PST #7441 of 10001
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Sophia Brooks - Mar 13, 2003 12:26:13 pm PST #7442 of 10001
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John (or maybe Jon) suggested rounding when he first made the proposal because we didn't want to have the number "23.84365" be the number of buffistas needed.
amych - Mar 13, 2003 12:27:27 pm PST #7443 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
we didn't want to have the number "23.84365" be the number of buffistas needed.
Understood, but then why round to the nearest 5 instead of the nearest unit?
Cindy - Mar 13, 2003 12:28:04 pm PST #7444 of 10001
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Right - that's what I meant. Why not round to the nearest whole number?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 13, 2003 12:30:54 pm PST #7445 of 10001
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That I do not know. I think whoever it was just thought it would be odd even to have 23 be the number.
I am not speaking for myself, though, so I don't really know.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2003 12:32:28 pm PST #7446 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I like rounding to the nearest unit. It'll be fun to have the number be 23. Or whatever.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 13, 2003 12:45:30 pm PST #7447 of 10001
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John H "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 11, 2003 10:02:27 pm EST
This was the original post. I think discussion is on either side.
bicyclops - Mar 13, 2003 1:17:38 pm PST #7448 of 10001
Back at #7289, John H said:
Hate me for asking, but what's a Binary Walk?
Did we ever get a (serious) answer for this? If so, I missed it. A link that explains it or a email to profile addy would be fine so as not to over-mathify the list. I'm just curious. Googling turned up lots of explanations of walks through a binary tree, but I'm not sure if that is related.
On rounding, I'm with the nearest integer crowd.
Cindy - Mar 13, 2003 1:21:10 pm PST #7449 of 10001
Nobody
The only reason I saw for rounding was, "so we don't get a weirdo MVT like 27."
Burrell "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 11, 2003 9:55:06 pm EST
I like rounding to the nearest unit. It'll be fun to have the number be 23. Or whatever.
I'm Jesse on a lot of this stuff like the above, except her unholy lust for the number 50, WHICH shalt doom her to an eternity in AN LAKE OF FIRE.
John H - Mar 13, 2003 1:39:21 pm PST #7450 of 10001
Hey everyone.
Numbers, number, numbers.
I didn't propose rounding. I'd be happy to have 17 or 23 or 39 Buffistas. I put that in because someone, Laura or Jesse maybe, suggested it and there were no disagreements at the time.
I once said 100 for MVT (minimum voter turnout) but I really was pulling a number out of my ass that I knew I could do math on.
I had no reason at all for saying 100 other than that I know what 51% of a hundred is.
Quite a few people agreed, soon after, that it was a little high.
Hec shortly after came up with the number 65 because it was around half of the people who voted, 135. Now I look at it, I guess it's half of 135 rounded up to the nearest five...