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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I usually just cherry pick the data that makes me happy. Works every time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It's missing the last two panels where he pulls out a knife and carves up the data

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

That's how you get your paper published. Find the stat with the happiest (see, statistically relevant) outcome, publish based solely on that.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll take a no any day over an " I dunno,maybe, probably not, your methods might have been totally backwards and there's not enough funding to ever do this again the right way." that's often what data seems to whisper to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

My personal favourite is "are you sure that's in the design specs?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Data should move to a country that lacks the phonemes to properly pronounce your name (looking at you Spanish and your piddly 5 vowel sounds). You end up just answering to anything that sounds similar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The first one

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just happened to me today, still recovering

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Incorrect, the smile should be beaming in the last panel. One small step for mankind and all that jazz. :-D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Jokes on you, I was testing my null hypothesis