A thread to share probability and statistics mis-conceptions.
Bwahahahahaha! Maybe the egg industry should just trash one out of every four egg cartons, before they even get shipped out, so people don’t have to worry about salmonella anymore! Oooh, better yet, just kill one out of every four chickens… eliminate the fowl that’re laying salmonella-infested eggs to begin with!!!
Damn, I’m good. I happened to see someone on Brunchma link this, and judging from your thread title, it’s what I thought of.
Sometimes people take things way too seriously. I think this might be one of them, no?
Livin’ on the edge by eating a 4 egg omelet - Film at Eleven!!
Baseball star Rickey Henderson, on allegations that half of all MLB players take steroids: “The (Sports Illustrated) article said 50 percent. Well, I’m not one of them – so that’s 49 percent right there.”
From here.
misconceptions…that’s an understatment!
Yeah, it’s funny at first. But then you think about why someone that incredibly stupid is in charge of doing health inspections. And why they still have a job.
My thoughts exactly.
That’s government at work for you!
It’s a well known fact that 40% of all statistics are wrong, anyway.
…and a further 62.47% are completely made up.
…so the remaining 7% are true?
Just a silly story; I really doubt if it happened. (It’s currently listed as a legend at snopes.com).
Even so, this story gives me the crepes.
It’s pure eggageration. Somebody’s idea of a stupid <Swedish> joke <?Swedish>.
8 out of 3 people don’t know how to use statistics correctly anyway.
Screw the statistical idiocy, where the hell did the “1 in 4 eggs have salmonella” thing come from??? The only stat I’ve ever heard from the FDA said it was 1 in 20,000!
That’s why I’ve stuck to 19,999 egg omelets. I’m no fool.
Remember that, when you plan for a family, roughly 1 in 5 children born are Chinese.
How terrible; how do the parents of such children overcome the language barrier?
Well, luckily, 1 in 5 parents speak Chinese, so by the time you have five kids, there will be a 89% chance that either you or your wife will speak Chinese, anyway.
“Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.”