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Presenter:
<blockquote>Çlearlly, any product with a large user base is going to throw up some problems.  Dell, for example, is shipping almost 40m PCs a year, so even if 95% of it users are happy, there could still be 6m or so with significant gripes.<div align=right>The Guardian <br>25 January 2007</div></blockquote>
<blockquote>'In statistics, in data which are binomially distributed, individual values may be placed in one of two mutually exclusive categories such that the sum of the probabilities of occurring in the categories is what value?'</blockquote>
 
Answer given: 'Unity'<br>
 
Presenter: <blockquote>'No, it's one, or a hundred percent'
 
<div align=right>''University Challenge'' BBC2<br>
22 October 2007</div></blockquote>

Revision as of 20:06, 3 January 2008

Quotation

You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.

Jim Albert
The Numbers Guy
Wall Street Journal. 7 December, 2007

Forsooth

The following Forsooths are from the January 2008 issue of RSS NEWS.


In terms of platform use trends among the respondents, 53% cited Windows as their primary technical computing platform, with Linux following closely at 51%.

NAGNews email (NAG User Íurvey 2006 on technical
computing trends)
August 2006

Çlearlly, any product with a large user base is going to throw up some problems. Dell, for example, is shipping almost 40m PCs a year, so even if 95% of it users are happy, there could still be 6m or so with significant gripes.

The Guardian
25 January 2007