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<blockquote>You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.<br> <div align=right> Jim Albert<br> The Numbers Guy<br> ''Wall Street Journal''. 7 December, 2007</div></blockquote> | <blockquote>You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.<br> <div align=right> Jim Albert<br> The Numbers Guy<br> ''Wall Street Journal''. 7 December, 2007</div></blockquote> | ||
==Forsooth== | |||
The following Forsooths are from the January 2008 issue of RSS NEWS. | |||
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<blockquote>In perms of platform use trends among the respondents, 53% cited Windows as their primary technical computing platform, with Linus following closely at 51%. | |||
<div align=right>'NAGNews email (NAG User Íurvey 2006 on technical computing trends<br> | |||
August 2006 </div></blockquote> | |||
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Presenter: | |||
<blockquote>'In statistics, in data which are binomially distributed, individual values may be placed in one of two mutually exclusive categories such that the sum of the probabilities of occurring in the categories is what value?'</blockquote> | |||
Answer given: 'Unity'<br> | |||
Presenter: <blockquote>'No, it's one, or a hundred percent' | |||
<div align=right>''University Challenge'' BBC2<br> | |||
22 October 2007</div></blockquote> | |||
Revision as of 19:57, 3 January 2008
Quotation
You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.
Jim Albert
The Numbers Guy
Wall Street Journal. 7 December, 2007
Forsooth
The following Forsooths are from the January 2008 issue of RSS NEWS.
In perms of platform use trends among the respondents, 53% cited Windows as their primary technical computing platform, with Linus following closely at 51%.
'NAGNews email (NAG User Íurvey 2006 on technical computing trends
August 2006
Presenter:
'In statistics, in data which are binomially distributed, individual values may be placed in one of two mutually exclusive categories such that the sum of the probabilities of occurring in the categories is what value?'
Answer given: 'Unity'
Presenter:
'No, it's one, or a hundred percent'
University Challenge BBC2
22 October 2007