diff --git a/estimator-calibration.md b/estimator-calibration.md index 70e0996..458c4f4 100644 --- a/estimator-calibration.md +++ b/estimator-calibration.md @@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ unnecessary negative form, otherwise good. > The Navy won the first Army-Navy football game. -should specify the official event name, otherwise good. +perfect. -> The paperback version of the book "The Da Vinci Code", as of July 2007, still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon. +> The paperback version of the book "The Da Vinci Code", +> as of July 2007, still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon. obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good @@ -134,7 +135,8 @@ facile deceptive phrasing -> As of July of 2007, more people search Google forĀ  "Harry Potter" than "Hillary Clinton" (according to GoogleTrends). +> As of July of 2007, more people search Google for "Harry Potter" than "Hillary Clinton" +> (according to GoogleTrends). obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good @@ -154,27 +156,54 @@ obtuse phrasing, dated topic, otherwise good > What percentage of bronze is typically made of copper? -reductive +As written, the correct answer is 100%. +All bronze alloys contain copper. +Being more generous, +there is no standard composition of bronze. +The subject can only guess at the interrogator's intent. +Average by weight produced? +Over what time frame? +In the U.S. or globally? > How many countries have at least one McDonald's? As of when? > How many employees did eBay have in the first quarter of 2006 + > What was the population of Miami (within the city limits, not the entire metropolitan area) in 1990? + > How many casualties did the French suffer in the Battle of Waterloo? + > What is the range in miles of a Minuteman Missile? + > What is the percentage of IT jobs in the US were unfilled in 1997? + > The Supremes' (with Diana Ross) song "Stop! In the Name of Love" was how long? (minutes, seconds) + > How many undergraduates attended Cambridge in 1990? + > If you could jump 50 feet straight up into the air, how many seconds would you be airborne before you landed? + > How many gallons are in a bushel (they are both measures of volume)? + +I wonder if Hubbard had the same thought I did +while reading [[macgregor_1994_judgemental-decomposition|MacGregor et al. (1994)]]. + > How many sovereign rulers has England had in the last thousand years? + > If the air temperature was 5 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) and the wind speed was 15 mph, what would the temperature adjusted for wind-chill be? + > Average cost of testing in software development is what percentage of total project costs? + > On average, if a software development project was projected to take 17 months, it actually takes how many months? + > How many meters tall is the Sears Tower? + > How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics? + > In 2005, the average combined MPG for all US cars and light trucks on the road was how much? + > The average house in the United States uses how many gallons of water per day? + > What was the average price in the United States of a house sold in 2001?