How have experts estimated the amount of oil that was shooting out of that pipe in the Gulf? I bet there's some neat math or physics involved here, and some interesting assumptions considering how little concrete data are available.
How do you estimate the flow rate of one fluid into another like the Deep Horizon Oil leak?
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4Probably much better suited for http://stats.stackexchange.com/ – 2010-07-30
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4@Blue really? Seems fine here to me :/ – 2010-07-30
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0A cursory Google search brought this up: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html – 2010-07-30
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0I'm not sure it belongs on stats, either -- but it does not belong here. Numerical estimation could be its own stackexchange, but it's not mathematics. – 2010-08-07
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0@Heath: I think that is a question for the meta. However questions about the modelling of this phenomenon are certainly appropriate here. – 2010-08-12