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- Article 44080 of comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:
- Path: dime!barrett
- From: barrett@scooby.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Graphs, Statistics, Damn Lies, and Dismembered Weasles
- Summary: offensive to mathematicians and perhaps humans
- Keywords: math, not
- Message-ID: <59953@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 17 Feb 93 01:22:17 GMT
- Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
- Reply-To: barrett@scooby.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
- Lines: 120
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- Some people in .advocacy this week are having a lot of FUN with
- statistics and graphs! Some of them are using their marvelous, incredible
- mathematical intuition to make sweeping generalizations about Commodore,
- the Amiga, goat romance, and other VITALLY important topics!
-
- Anyway, using our AMAZING mathematical skill and a new program called
- LIEWITHSTATISTICSMONGER, we have some UNBELIEVABLE data to share with you!!!!
-
- To start off, let's talk about what's happening here in
- c.s.a.advocacy. Marc Barrett has been posted an awful lot of articles
- over the years, as this graph clearly shows:
-
- 800 |
- |
- 700 |
- | *
- 600 | *
- Stupid | *
- Posts 500 | * *
- (millions) | *
- 400 |
- |
- 300 |
- |
- 200 |
- |
- 100 | *
- |
- 0 | *
- +------------------------------
- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
- 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
- 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9
- 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
-
- Year
-
-
- What can we tell from this graph? Well, clearly, since we are
- already 1.5 months into 1993 and Marc has posted only a measly 100,000,000
- ridiculous articles, he is slipping behind. In fact, we'll bet that the
- average dweeb in comp.sys.mac.advocacy is much more productive. We conclude
- that Marc Barrett is DOOMED and will go out of business by 1994. Or at least
- he'll be out of business in North America. But his popularity in Europe is
- not so hot either. Frankly, we doubt he could sell his body to science.
-
- Next, here is a graph of SAT test scores in mathematics by students
- at Iowa State University, arranged by last name:
-
- 800 |
- | #
- 700 | # # # # # ## #
- |# ### ## # # ### ## ###
- 600 |# ###### #### ######## ###
- |# #################### ###
- 500 |# ########################
- Average |# ########################
- score 400 |# ########################
- |# ########################
- 300 |# ########################
- |# ########################
- 200 |# ########################
- |# ########################
- 100 |# ########################
- |##########################
- 0 |##########################
- +--------------------------
- ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
-
- Initial of student's
- last name
-
- We leave the interpretation of this graph up to the reader.
-
- Finally, Amiga sales are a really hot topic in this group (and other
- groups, since SOMEBODY still insists on ranting in c.s.a.misc and
- c.s.a.hardware). Surprisingly, however, nobody yet has discussed the
- relationship between Commodore's net profits and the size of my dick:
-
- 80 |
- |
- 70 | ***
- | * *
- 60 | * *
- | * *
- Centi- 50 | * *
- meters | * *
- 40 | * *
- | * *
- 30 | * *
- | * *
- 20 | * *
- | * *
- 10 | * *
- |****** ******
- 0 |
- +------------------------
- 1
- 1122334455667788990
- 50505050505050505050
- 000000000000000000000
-
- Amiga sales in
- millions of dollars
-
- This completes our statistics lesson for today. Anybody wishing
- further information on this topic should closely consult his/her armpit for
- a lengthy period of time.
-
- Dan
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- There is no way I'm going to copyright this article. I disavow all
- knowledge of it, including all extraneous comments made by my pet
- orangutan, Fluffykins.
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