This was one of the very few valuable things I learned working towards a bachelors degree. One of my professors popped a quiz on the class with the question “h

This was one of the very few valuable things I learned working towards a bachelors degree. One of my professors popped a quiz on the class with the question “how many piano tuners live in the state of New York”. After collecting the answers, he spent the rest of the session lecturing (especially those like me who left it blank) on how to make estimates without having any firsthand knowledge in the problem space, and how valuable that skill could be.