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Before reading the article, you can have fun doing a rough quantitative estimate. A Fermi question. How many squirrels live in NYC's Central Park? Is it more
by mncharity 7y ago
Before reading the article, you can have fun doing a rough quantitative estimate. A Fermi question.
How many squirrels live in NYC's Central Park?
Is it more like 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10k, 100k, 1M, 10M, or 100M? What hard "no way is it more/less than" lower and upper bounds are you comfortable with and why? What about soft "I'd be surprised if it was more/less than" bounds and why? Doing iterative bounding and discussion, is a far more fruitful way to use the common estimation problems of education, than the traditional point estimates.