Jun 05, 2014 17:57
The following passage comes from page 138 of Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers by Charles Seife. The source is an anonymous statistician, the context is a discussion of disputed elections, and the formatting is my own.
Humans counting things:
I don't care what the things are--
They're going to be off.
arrant pedantry,
life through the ox-cam,
reflections,
social studies