Chance News 33

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.

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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

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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