Statisticians and significant digits

November 23, 2011

Topic

Statistics / humor, SMBC

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on significant digits and statisticians’ natural disbelief in numbers. Life is so hard. [Thanks, Michael]

1 Comment

Tom — November 24, 2011 at 8:00 am

It’s only funny because it’s true.

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