Saturday, January 23, 2010

A word on stats


http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1271

Needless to say it applies in the UK also. Jorge Cham writes one of the best niche cartoons out for University Graduate students - if you want to know what working in research is really like, go over and check out his work.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Ah yes, but how many people don't even bother to choose "Yeah, whatever, don't care"?

I once did a Fun Online Poll asking whether people took part in Fun Online Polls. A third voted 'yes' and two-thirds voted 'no', but how many more didn't even bother to vote 'no'???

Demetrius said...

Good one. Interestly where does this put YouGov and Simon Kelner?