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dcmintertoday at 7:08 AM4 repliesview on HN

Well, if we're telling stats jokes...

A statistician is a man who with his head in the freezer and his feet in the oven can say "On the whole I feel perfectly normal."

Recommended reading: 'How to lie with statistics' - Huff, 1954

:)


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friedchipstoday at 7:24 AM

The average body temperature of the people in a hospital is in the normal range. Many do have a slight fever, but some are in the fridge.

Our stat prof was a very special guy.

yoz-ytoday at 7:41 AM

I’d recommend reading “How to make the world count” instead of a work of a morally bankrupt guy who used the very same tricks he criticized to discredit the cancer studies of tobacco usage.

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saulpwtoday at 7:18 AM

After all the average human has one breast and one testicle.

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MattPalmer1086today at 9:35 AM

Bill Gates walked into a bar. Everyone was, on average, a multi millionaire.

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