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and you are the only two people in Morris whose blogs I frequent, and who have personally met the Desert Donkey.

This is dangerous information to hold, and I apologize for the consequences.

In a bit of serendipity, I just ran across another excellent example of some fine statistical inference: BREAD IS DANGEROUS. As he points out, research on bread indicates that (among many other fascinating facts):

More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

And to think, WeatherGirl subjected me to some of her home-made bread just last night! We’re not even safe in our own homes!

He also says that

Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

but I haven’t a clue what he’s on about there. I’m slightly concerned that he might be some sort of in-tee-lect-uuual, though. You never can be too careful on the Intar-web.

Thump

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