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cici
@galad. Thanks for noticing. Fortunately for me I don't own any cows, but I do eat parts of them. The prices will go up anyway, so beef is a luxury right now, but a tax, which the DEP calls Cow Fart Tax, really attracted my attention. Please let me say it was the tax part which attracted me, but when they are going to tax "farts", that really got my antenna up. By the way, attractive picture, wait until DEP checks your diaper.
bigken1
Great topic, and a good job here would make the running of hubdub a lot easier for staff and more equitable for users...
I wanted to comment on tisha's 2 and 3 using alternate words that are to my mathematical mind more simply put....
With regard to 2) what one wants is some kind of complete space to fill it all, and not overlap (see for example Venn diagrams and boolean algebra).
so for example ( A and NOT A) satisfies these criteria. (but A, B and neither A nor B does not, since A and B can overlap and so this answer Both A and B can lead to a complication). One can think of each criterion as filling a certain area of space in a circle, and then how do these circles overlap needs to be accounted for, and also how is the area outside each circle accounted for..
Hope this adds to Tisha's excellent writeup for those who prefer the logic. I think the testability discussed next is also an important element.
With regard to 3), the answer should be "testable", that is, not what is, but what can be verified, for example as reported by a major news source, etc.
Let me add something that may not have been discussed, that I have seen all too often , and fallen victim to, a number of times. THis is when the question says "A" and the details of the settlement, or the paragraph following the question, says something quite different. I can understand some of these differences, because the question title needs to be brief, but THEY DO NOT need to be misleading.. So, let us check this aspect of questions and get rid of misleading questions... A little help here, everyone..
I wanted to comment on tisha's 2 and 3 using alternate words that are to my mathematical mind more simply put....
With regard to 2) what one wants is some kind of complete space to fill it all, and not overlap (see for example Venn diagrams and boolean algebra).
so for example ( A and NOT A) satisfies these criteria. (but A, B and neither A nor B does not, since A and B can overlap and so this answer Both A and B can lead to a complication). One can think of each criterion as filling a certain area of space in a circle, and then how do these circles overlap needs to be accounted for, and also how is the area outside each circle accounted for..
Hope this adds to Tisha's excellent writeup for those who prefer the logic. I think the testability discussed next is also an important element.
With regard to 3), the answer should be "testable", that is, not what is, but what can be verified, for example as reported by a major news source, etc.
Let me add something that may not have been discussed, that I have seen all too often , and fallen victim to, a number of times. THis is when the question says "A" and the details of the settlement, or the paragraph following the question, says something quite different. I can understand some of these differences, because the question title needs to be brief, but THEY DO NOT need to be misleading.. So, let us check this aspect of questions and get rid of misleading questions... A little help here, everyone..
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