Re: Your expert perspective...

[Rich Oesterling <ogr@inel.gov>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Alan Enns wrote:

> 
> >	I would make an attempt to educate with ideas like "well, I guess
> >	the car companies are going to Kilometers to make their mpg numbers
> >	look better..." I don't think there's much of a chance of swaying
> >	anybody who is in as much of an ostrich mode as the teacher, but if
> >	even one class member is helped, it's worth it.
> 
> Kilometers per gallon?!?  Educate?  Now I'm beginning to see...
> 
> >
> >Frank R. Borger - Physicist     ___      "One third of the rats were improved
> >Michael Reese - U of Chicago   |___      on the experimental medication, one
> >Center for Radiation Therapy   | |_) _   third remained the same, and the 
> >net: Frank@rover.uchicago.edu    | \|_)  other one third could not be repor-
> >ph: 312-791-8075 fa: 791-2517       |_)  ted on, because that rat got away."
> 
> Alan Enns
> aenns@unixg.ubc.ca

Well, "mileage" based on kilometers per gallon looks a lot better than 
"mileage" expressed as kilometers per liter.  :-)

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