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How Excited Are You

June 29, 2018

A pedantic emcee insists that 'how excited are you?' needs a numerical answer.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-29-how-excited-are-you/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Emcee: "All right everybody, how excited are you for our next singer?!" Crowd: "Wooo!" "Yeah!" "Woohoo!"

Emcee: "Folks, 'enthusiastic noise' is not an answer to a 'how much' question. We're looking for quantities here, people." Crowd member: "...8.7?"

Topics
Number & Arithmetic › MeasurementStatistics › Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data
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