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Hi^guys

How about a Statistic Humor Thread?

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The mean walks into a bar and buys no one a drink.

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What we really need is a careful meta-analysis to estimate the level of publication bias in studies of publication bias of studies of publication bias. - Andrew Gelman

Radford Neal (giving a talk): I don't necessarily think that the Bayesian method is the best thing to do in all cases...
Geoff Hinton: Sorry Radford, my prior probability for you saying this is zero, so I couldn't hear what you said.

"A Bayesian is one who, vaguely expecting a horse, and catching a glimpse of a donkey, strongly believes he has seen a mule."