Fun Facts

[Death_ADDER]

statistics... wtf... who cares...

Steve

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

I care, statistics are everything, except to tyler durden. he hates them.

[Paladin_Godfather]

did you know that 85% of the gay population is left handed..... and 67% of all statistics are made up on the spot 

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

I wouldnt be suprised if gay people were usually left handed. They are the odd ones. Instead of playing dodgeball with the guys in gym class, they would sit in the shade with the girls and talk about fashion.

[meli!]

so whats wrong with that? my gay buddy is a fashion guru


 in scotland theres a church called raslin chapel, beaneath it is a huge vualt with no openings, this is believed to be the spot of the holy grial. -- ty ultra sound --

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

Im pretty sure indiana jones recovered the holy grail. And odds are the thing doesnt even exitst anymore. It most likely wasnt made from solid gold and gems, jesus wasnt rich,  most likely it was made from wood, so it would be destroyed by now from time.

[Cole]

Ah, people are strange.  Who cares.  Jesus was the man, but he's dead now.  He had a message.  He told it.  People listened, but didn't hear what he was really saying.  Then people used it for control.  Such is life, such is mango.

And as for stats.  It is a truly wonderful science that should be embraced.  I have yet to meet more people than I can count on one hand that truly understand stats.  Even us "smart" engineers usually don't use them correctly.  If some spits out a statistic, and I ask about sampling details, i.e. what type of data was it?  discrete, poisson, normal...  did you or they use a stochastic/nonparametric analysis for non normal distributions?  Did you use a chi squared to poisson to normal transformation on the data before running that ANOVA?  Most people will go "huh"  and then I'd say "that's what I thought you little bitch.  now go sit down and tell your lies to someone else.  oh, and since you don't care to learn your job correctly, no one in this room would even care if you were never born!"

The other pet peeve, is that people then take results (false or not) and then truy to say something about causality.  Correlation never implies causality. 

[WolbEm]

Dont get me started on that Cole.  This stuck with me from a long time ago, it was told much better, but you'll get the point.  A man decides to try and find out what causes one to become intoxicated.  The first night, he drinks scotch and water and gets plastered.  Second night - vodka and water, with the same effect.   Third night, gin and water, again getting drunk..   His final conclusion... water must be what gets you drunk.

[TyDiRiUm]

If that were true America would be down to about 100 people,lol

[Death_ADDER]

damn drop... I never seen it that way...

Steve

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

Ohhh shit, I didnt understand what the hell cole said. I kinda didnt know where one word ended and where on started so i kinda skipped all of it. But good job drop kick, i didnt know someone with an intellect like yours read the spam forums.

[WolbEm]

I prefer the spam, eggs, sausage and spam... just because it doent have that much spam in it

[meli!]

the sangrial wasnt a cup it was mary magdolin

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

Did you know...

Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they ! do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed..
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

[TyDiRiUm]

X, your like our information database for wierd shit here at TE bro, lol. 

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