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Winter
2002
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Date
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Presenter(s)
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Title
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13Mar02
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Group
Activity
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Learning
to Estimate
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Description
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useful skill to have is the ability to make numerical estimates.
Why is this useful? To quickly get a feel for important factors,
and to perform "sanity checks" on more complex calculations.
Estimating involves dealing with uncertainty, gathering information, and
assessing how accurate the information needs to be. Estimation exercises
are sometimes called "Fermi Questions"; we'll try a few!
Noon, 339 Strong
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