Recent content by vonQuux

The answer is Ted Nugent? vQ

Precisely! Now you just need to recognize that there were two camps of people who read your post. There were some who felt that the question was incomplete and for them, the lecture went "as planned." There were also those who weren't even sure that what question was being asked and that...

You can keep trying to change my question but that won't fly. My difficulty with your puzzle precludes any complaint about insufficient data. If the question was only missing data, I'd have no quarrel. My difficulty with your puzzle is that there were multiple interpretations about what was...

In a sense, yes. We've all seen instances where polls are taken and the questions are worded in such a way that the answers cannot be trusted. For example, it's generally a bad idea to have a poll where one of the available options contains two elements because the reader might agree with...

You're going through great lengths to avoid the simple question, even as I've broken it down into sentence-length bits of logic. I have argued that if a person with no statistics (or even math) skills can logically declare this question unanswerable, it is not a statistics puzzle. I am not...

Nope, no tizzy. I'm just thorough. :grin: If I was less verbose I'd run the risk of being imprecise which would be kind of ironic. Unfortunately, I guess I haven't been verbose enough. Repeated attempts to outline my argument (in finer and finer increments) have failed to meet any kind of...

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot. You act as if you've got some standing to offer me permission. Good luck with that. Perhaps but a precursor to asking the right questions is to ask an unambiguous question. If you don't ask a question whose meaning is clear, the questions that result...

My sincere apologies if I'm missing blatant sarcasm but you're not really suggesting that his confidence in his play was helpful ...are you? vQ

I have to wonder if the guy actually did have his count reversed. I mean, if he's confusing a -10 count for 8, maybe the poor lad thinks you're supposed to add X-A and subtract on 2-6? I can think of only one other possibility; the guy was utterly full of sh*t and just made up a number when...

Yipes. Looks like I hit a nerve... Look, asking a question whose implications are deeper than realized at first glance is distinct and entirely different from a question that is ambiguous to the point where five people have five different ideas about what the question actually is asking. It...

It's worse than that. The question as posed cannot be answered. For example, the thing about people getting on and off the bus and at the end you're asked how many people are on the bus -- and you're supposed to remember that there is a driver, too -- that's a trick question. But posing a...

With all due respect, a precursor to being interested in the answer is probably getting at least two people to agree on the question. :laugh: Again, not intended as a flame but... vQ

You ass. I spent a half hour trying to figure it out! Haha. Oh man... :laugh: vQ

Say that Natalie Portman just showed up a few rooms down. Alone. And drunk. *poof. Empty table. vQ

I have to admit, I don't quite understand everything you posted but I appreciate it. And I'll chew on it for a few days, see if that helps. :grin: vQ