blue room

I don’t feel so well. I don’t know if it’s physical, emotional, or both. Some mystery texter has been telling me things about my new-found-and-getting-close friend. I don’t know if I should believe mystery texter. I don’t know what mystery texter’s intentions are or for whom. I don’t know exactly why am I involved. I don’t know if I should get involved or if I wanna get involved at all. I don’t know whom to believe, or if I should believe either of them. Logically assessing the whole thing, I see that I’m not part of it (or maybe just a little). It’s none of my business but whatever is happening between close friend and mystery texter, somehow I got caught up in the middle. I just wish I know the truth. I know I can’t get the whole truth from either of them. I have someone in mind to ask about it but I’m afraid he’d be in the mess too. The burden is on me, yet I really didn’t do anything, or at least that’s what I think. I wanna tell someone about the whole mess and everything that’s in my head but I’m afraid the whole thing will blow out of proportion. I’m caught in the middle. And I want out.

i’m sorry to those who can’t relate…oh, well…

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A mathematician, applied mathematician and a statistician all apply for the same job. At the interview they are asked the question, what is 1+1. The mathematician replies, "I can prove that it exists but not that it is unique." The applied mathematician after some thought replies, "the answer is approximately 1.99 with an error in the region of 0.01." The statistician steps outside the room, mulls it over for several minutes, and eventually in desparation returns and inquires, "so what do you want it to be?"

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A physician makes an analysis of a complex illness whereas a statistician makes you ill with a complex analysis!

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A statistician always HAS SOMETHING TO SAY with numbers while a politician always HAS TO SAY SOMETHING with numbers!

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A LOTTERY IS A TAX ON PEOPLE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND STATISTICS!!!

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STATISTICS IS THE TAMING OF RANDOMNESS.

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On independence: I read that there’s about 1 chance in 1000 that someone will board an airplane carrying a bomb. So I started carrying a bomb with me on every flight I take; I figure the odds against two people having bombs are astronomical.

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Why did the statistician take Viagra?

Since his sample was large, he did not want to be rejected with a small p-value and be declared practically nonsignificant!!

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You can always TELL a statistician,

But you cant tell him much!!

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(here’s my fave)

Knock! Knock!

Who’s there?

Em

Em who?

MLE! The Maximum Likelihood Estimator!