A blog of the Freer Family's adventures and misadventures emigrating to Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia, and settling there.
Friday, May 27, 2011
30 000 olives.
Today we picked 30 000 olives. That's a lot of Olives... and I am dead tired. I've done my K of writing (and it is good) and now I am going to bed, which will also be good!
I like this way of doing science, if there is a margin of error on one sample, take a population of 30000. Having the maths of statistical ensembles on the cogs must help take the mind off picking. I conclude therefore, that I am glad that Olives have no thorns.
who was doing the counting??
ReplyDeleteFellow called mathematics and a scale :-)
ReplyDeleteSo it's actually an estimate...
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Lisa S. in Seattle
How many in a kilo???
ReplyDeleteseaboe, is estimate another word for 'lots'? ;-)
ReplyDeleteAbigailM - these ones are around a gram each. The ones I've been pickling are between 4-6 grams.
ReplyDeleteDave, in this case, yes. It's also another word for I-don't-know-exactly-how-many.
ReplyDeleteLisa S. in Seattle
Actually on larger picking projects sampling provides a pretty good answer.
ReplyDeleteI like this way of doing science, if there is a margin of error on one sample, take a population of 30000. Having the maths of statistical ensembles on the cogs must help take the mind off picking. I conclude therefore, that I am glad that Olives have no thorns.
ReplyDeletesorry I asked !
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