Friday, November 05, 2004

Counting Actuaries

I have just been so close to winning a pound from my staff. He had noticed that a lot of the photos of people in this month's The Actuary magazine, were of people dancing or doing gymnastics. He was correct - there are several. This led us to make a bet on what the profession of most of the people pictured was.

I bet one pound that the majority of them would be actuaries. He bet a pound that the majority wouldn't be. We counted and classified people as best we were able.

This gave a count of 31 to each side, with one person we just couldn't decide on. Research on the internet was unable to settle the matter either. So we were forced to concede a draw. Darn. No pound for me.

Disclaimer: Because some actuarial judgment had to be used in this exercise, the conclusion we came to may not be definitive. I don't care.

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