RobinZ comments on A fun estimation test, is it useful? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 21 December 2010 10:28:46PM 0 points [-]

I call shenanigans on some of those answers - I had the surface temperature of the Sun to two significant figures, and he rounded it to one. :P

To my credit, though, I hit 30% through honest stupidity, rather than misunderstanding calibration. My understanding of geography is clearly worse than Columbus's, for example.