Estimating the cost of bad investments, or how much did the Church lose on you?

The NYTimes recently mentioned the Fermi game of figuring “ballpark” estimates of real-world numbers for questions you, at first glance, think of as un-estimatable – for example, how many piano tuners are there in Chicago? Though I am generally bad at math (and shun it), I like this game, and it occurred to me to try to generate a ballpark figure for how much the LDS Church has lost in BYU grads who have become life-long non-tithepayers. Here’s my estimate of the most basic, upfront parameters Read more [...]

Posted by cherie on September 28th, 2008 | 10 Comments Posted in BYU, Tithing

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