How many can claim knowledge of the British star Vesta Tilley, who at the height of her fame in 1903 was making a staggering £1,000 a week?
(For those interested in details, and some of the limitations and potential uses of such markets, see the discussion in my new book, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge).
Marketers pay particular attention to how many people volunteer knowledge of their film — if the numbers are low a few weeks out, they will tweak the campaign — and "W".
There are no time-and-motion studies that can measure how many thoughts go through knowledge workers' heads or the value of their creative output.
By John Cassidy A quick test of your pop-culture knowledge: How many of the twenty-five best-selling albums in American history can you name, and what proportion of them were recorded in this century?
At Fuzzy Vibes, they sell not just clothes but other quirky memorabilia – I got a kick out of the sample questions on a Trivial Pursuit precursor board game called "The Game of Knowledge" ("How many holes does a telephone dial have?").
Hugh — who, perhaps brutally, put herself through Entrepreneur First twice as she sought to pair up with the right co-founder — says she was inspired to start Brolly after she became alarmed to hear how many consumers lacked basic knowledge of insurance.
Suddenly they doubt their own knowledge: how many questions can they answer against The Chaser?
And how many smokers acknowledge this knowledge but simply shrug their shoulders and continue to light up?
KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "How many opposition players have scored hat-tricks at Old Trafford?
