Premise: If the evaluation question involved an understanding of working conditions for migrant laborers or workers in heavy industry, a thick description, even including information on how exhausted the evaluator felt in the heat, would be more appropriate-according to some case study methodologists-than only recording that the thermometer registered 95 degrees.

Hypothesis: Descriptions are better than numbers sometimes.
Answer: yes

Premise: Among the first people to join the staff of Slate, way back in 1996, were Associate Publisher Betsy Davis and Program Manager Bill Barnes.

Hypothesis: Slate now has over 50 employees.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: yeah and then it lies in a drawer for about five or six years at least

Hypothesis: Then no one touches it for up to ten years.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: It's said to weigh 2,000 tons (1.8 million kg/4 million pounds).

Hypothesis: It weighs quite a lot.
Answer: yes