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Urbandale, IA | Subject: RE: CosmopoliTAN #37: Drinks and Worldly Conversation about Nothingwurkit_gurl - 2008-07-31 2:46 PM jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:42 PM wurkit_gurl - 2008-07-31 2:40 PM jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:37 PM Scout7 - 2008-07-31 2:32 PM jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:31 PM One of y'all that lives in a big city - how many people do you think you meet and at least know by name or would recognize on the street in your lifetime? What do you mean? I'll give you an example. The high school I went to graduated 420 or so students. I knew, at least by face recognition, most of the class I graduated with. I also knew a good portion of the Juniors and some of the Sophomores. I would estimate that by the time I graduated from high school, I met 1200 or so people that I would remember by name or facial recognition. I would think that at a larger school (say an inner city LA school) there are quite a few more in a graduating class, so I would think that there are people in the same class that didn't know each other at all, so the math would not necesssarily hold true. My question is - based on your life experience, how many people do you think you will meet and know by facial or name recognition in your life, based on an average 70 year life span. Good lord. I don't even know! I mean, my high school was very large, and I know a lot of people. I took dance lessons for a long time and have done a lot of theatre outside school. Plus, college (including an entire MIT fraternity), grad school, the year I did taekwondo, folks I've met through triathloning, jobs, and I've met a lot of folks at church. Lots. Try to estimate for me. I am preparing a speech and I have a statistic that I feel will be startling when placed in the right perspective. Since you schooled in the area that I am giving this speech, I would like to use your number. I'm good with faces, though, or just remembering things in general. I could recognize people I saw on the T riding around Boston - didn't know them from beans, but had seen them enough to recognize that I'd seen them more than once. To be honest, I don't even know that I could guess correctly. OK - so for people that you would consider someone that you "know", is 2000 a realistic number or is it 5000, or 10,000. If you figure 1000 from high School and maybe that many from college. Then professional relationships and church, kids activities, volunteer work, hobbies (like Tri - There's 500 members on BT that are on here all of the time, do you "know" them, do you "know" me?). Conservatively, what is the right neighborhood? 7,500? BTW - Anyone can answer this - I'm not trying to put wurkit on the spot. |