I recently interviewed a physician for a general piece about his specialty, warning him upfront that the article would be very short (but that since it appears in a high-circulation paper, it was worth his while to do). Sent him the link to the piece this morning, and got the following in response:
I’m kind of at a loss for how to respond to that – not that there’s anything wrong with bidirectionality, of course.
I bet there’s at least two ways you can go in response.
Ask him if he’s free for a date. Suggest a trip to the Spectrum before it’s demolished later this year. Tell him that it’s a shame the final monster truck rally there has already been held, but there’s still the WWE Night Of Champions next month.
I’m not sure why this reminds me of John Oliver’s story on the Hadron Collider last night.
Some HS science teacher has been filing lawsuits trying to stop it. He says there is a 50/50 chance it will destroy the earth, because (to paraphrase) “…it either will or won’t, those are the two choices, so it’s 50/50.”
And at the end, Jon gets the guy to hunker down with him as if they were in a bunker and says, “You know, if we are the only two survivors left on earth, we should try to breed. After all, either one of us will get pregnant or not, so it’s 50/50.” All the sudden, the guy’s calculations of probability completely changed.
Boyo Jim, I am totally hijacking that the next time I need to explain to someone why their understanding of probability sucks.