I am 99.98% certain that Cardinal just made up some statistics on the spot a short while ago.
I am also 89.55% sure that ofos will post some smart ass remark on this thread within the next 100 minutes.
I am 99.98% certain that Cardinal just made up some statistics on the spot a short while ago.
I am also 89.55% sure that ofos will post some smart ass remark on this thread within the next 100 minutes.
People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor
The best lecture I have had...."Massage the numbers enough and they will tell you what you want."
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
To quote Mark Twain making stuff up about Benjamin Disraeli: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
The version I've heard and prefer: "If you torture the numbers long enough, they will confess." Math being, well, The Reason I Am A History Major, the use of the verb torture seems apt.Originally posted by kjel
I have seen
old ships sailing
like swans asleep
Living in a household with someone who actually likes science I will tell her about a stat I heard and she will ask about the study and if it was peer reviewed, and the standard deviation, blah blah.
I just now say I heard a rumor. It is easier that way.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams
They've done studies, you know? 60% of the time, it works all the time.
And that concludes staff’s presentation...
Sorry, I must have dozed off. Statistics and economics have that effect on me 89.55% of the time (+/- 4% margin of error).
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
Maister only posts 0.17 posts per hour.
Children in the back seat can cause accidents - and vice versa.
Only 0.07 of those posts receive responses.
On average, only 3.1415% of regular Cyburbian users respond to a Maister poll. But I could be wrong.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
I am very sure that I am going on vacation next week, so much is that ?
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Word on the street is JNA spends 27.6% of his time on vacation and 36.4% of his work hours on Cyburbia.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
Well you have been listening to the wrong people again.
I am sure I will not have computer access while on vacation because I don't own a laptop or pad
and
as to work time, as stated above
or"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
that is just arumor
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
I am the last poster in a thread 54.907% of the time. But not this time.
Bureau of labor statistics -
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000/
1. Choose 1950 in the "from" drop down list
2. Click on "Go"
The baby boomers started working around 1964, the last of us around 1980.
Check out the chart.
These same baby boomers started retiring recently.
A mirror image, do you suppose ?
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
-Larry Wall
I thought maybe this was going to show that one's chances of actually receiving Social Security benefits at age 65 decline 10% per year based on the year we started working...
Well... 90% of everything is crap.
Oh wait, that's Sturgeon's Law
When compassion exceeds logic for too long, chaos will ensue. - Unknown
Don't know the numbers but I do know that the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
I don't believe in probability, for what it's worth statistically. I believe it will either rain, or not rain. That's a 100% chance or a 0% chance, you just have to wait and see which it is. Probability is a lie. Don't buy in.
"...I would never try to tick Hink off. He kinda intimidates me. He's quite butch, you know." - Maister
There is always a 50% chance of rain.
There is an 87.3% chance that today I'll hear a front counter customer say something really stupid.
There is a 9.17% chance I'll get a response to the email I'm about to send to landowner about the trail easement document I sent him to review (more than 3 weeks ago).
"Whatever beer I'm drinking, is better than the one I'm not." DMLW
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