Question: What is the sum of 2 + 2? An accountant will say What do you want the answer to be? A mathematician will say I believe it is 4, but I will have to prove it. A statistician will say The population is too small to give an accurate answer, but on the basis of the data supplied the answer lies between 3 and 5. An economist will say Based on todays thinking, the answer is 4 but the answer may be different tomorrow. An engineer will say The answer is 4, but adding a safety factor we will call it 5.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:00:04 +0000
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