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Kirby

Lifer
Apr 10, 2006
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i've got a stuffed bunny and her name is bunny and she's just a baby and she's really soft and adorable and i snuggle with her every night but it's so hard to fall asleep because i go "night night bun bun" and then i try to sleep but she's sooooooo snuggly and i'm like omg *snuggle snuggle* and then i try to get to sleep but then i'm like omg cuteness overload again and i *snorgle snorgle* and i try to get to sleep *again* but in a minute i'm like omg >< likkel tummy and cheeks *squeal* and i wake myself up again and i can't get to sleep wahhhhhhh but if i don't have bunny i can't fall asleep because i feel lonely and sad
 

Mathlete

Senior member
Aug 23, 2004
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Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

the irony is that whoever said that is too stupid to understand basic statistics.
How so?

Average usually refers to the mean. The quote assumes that 50% of all people must fall below the average but that would be the median that they are talking about. While the median is a measure of central tendency it is not commonly referred to as the average.

Take the numbers 7, 7, 7, and 3. the average is 6 but only 25% are below that.
 

Mathlete

Senior member
Aug 23, 2004
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Don't know who said it but

"Ignorance gets a lot of people in trouble, arrogance keeps them there."
 

irishScott

Lifer
Oct 10, 2006
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert Heinlein

When you have come to the edge of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly.
-Patrick Overton

?I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
-William Orville Douglas

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy

I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [points to head] and here [points to heart] and by what you decide to do everyday, will make you a good man? or not.
-Hospitaler, Kingdom of Heaven.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
-Robert Benchley

"It's female to female they can't do it!"
*Awkward Pause*
"That came out wrong..."
- Me, while working on the robot during the Capital Clash (I was talking about a female to female serial cable connection). Good times B-)

We will either find a way, or make one.
-Hannibal (As in Carthaginian General)

Will: "This is either madness, or brains."
Jack: "Its remarkable how often those two traits coincide."

"WHAHTHAHELL?"
-Dat Hwang

This is the internet: where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.

Jason: ...Yeah, I just broke up with my girlfriend too, so...
Randy (exuberantly): PERFECT!!!

"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
-Seagate CEO Bill Watkins
 
Aug 26, 2004
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Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

that's George Carlin
 

Howard

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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Originally posted by: Mathlete
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

the irony is that whoever said that is too stupid to understand basic statistics.
How so?

Average usually refers to the mean. The quote assumes that 50% of all people must fall below the average but that would be the median that they are talking about. While the median is a measure of central tendency it is not commonly referred to as the average.

Take the numbers 7, 7, 7, and 3. the average is 6 but only 25% are below that.
For a large enough set, doesn't it sort of work itself out? The joke is easier to understand with average rather than median.
 

CallMeJoe

Diamond Member
Jul 30, 2004
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"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" Marine Sgt. Dan Daly at Belleau Wood.
 

miketheidiot

Lifer
Sep 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

george carlin
 

miketheidiot

Lifer
Sep 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

the irony is that whoever said that is too stupid to understand basic statistics.

or smart enough to understand a bell curve
 

Regs

Lifer
Aug 9, 2002
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"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. "

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. "
 

exnickoh

Senior member
May 3, 2009
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" -Edmund Burke
 

AreaCode707

Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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"But you don't look like a criminal."
"If crime showed in a man's face there wouldn't be any mirrors."

We're No Angels (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov)
 

Mathlete

Senior member
Aug 23, 2004
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Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Just found this one:

"Think about how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - unknown

the irony is that whoever said that is too stupid to understand basic statistics.

or smart enough to understand a bell curve

Assuming intelligence is normally distributed.
 

Aves

Lifer
Feb 7, 2001
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson
 

Cerpin Taxt

Lifer
Feb 23, 2005
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." -- Dorothy L. Sayers

"Before enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, you chop wood and carry water." -- Some buddhist
 

440sixpack

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May 30, 2000
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

Be a victor, or be a victim.
-David Vincent

History is written by the victors.
-Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
-Winston Churchill
 

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: 440sixpack
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
 

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
44,296
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Heinlein is great for quotes:

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
-Heinlein

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
-Heinlein

The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
-Heinlein

A religion is sometime a source of happiness, and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong. The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak certainty of reason- but one cannot have both.
-Heinlein
 
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