How Well Do You Estimate?

A random UK blogger has published a quiz asking readers to estimate various numeric values which they may or may not have knowledge of; and has analyzed the resulting answers to determine how well people guess. The first part of the results looks at some specific questions, and the second part takes a look at the quiz overall.

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[OT] Re:I estimate

[yamla]

I know this is off-topic, but I have to question your sig.

The scientific view is agnosticism and simplicity, not atheism.

I don't understand this. Agnosticism is pretty much summed up by the statement, 'One cannot know whether or not god exists.' This is a positive belief, a belief that it is impossible to know something. This seems very far away from a scientific view. A scientist would say, surely, that it should be possible to establish the existence of god if god exists, and that if there's a lack of proof, one should assume god does not exist. (Of course, many will say that there is plenty of evidence of the existence of god, that is outside of my argument here). This view is pretty much the antithesis of agnosticism.

Am I misunderstanding your sig? Or perhaps, you don't really mean 'agnostic', you actually mean 'weak atheist' and I am being too pedantic over exact meanings.