[ExI] significant figures

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:59 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Side question:  are there any engineers in Congress?  In the California
> legislature?  Doctors and lawyers, yes.  STEM people, not so much.
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress says
5 engineers & 6 scientists in Congress.  The proportion is likely similar
in the California legislature.  As the counts of other professions in that
article demonstrate, this is not the quality that electors care about.
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