A Joke
Mom sent this so me of all people, bless ye heart: A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist
are on a photo-safari in Africa. They drive out into the savannah in
their jeep, stop and scour the horizon with their binoculars.
The biologist: "Look! There's a herd of zebras! And there, in the
middle: a white zebra! It's fantastic! There are albino zebras! We can
publish this!"
The statistician: "It's not significant. We only know there's one white zebra."
The mathematician: "Actually, we know there exists a zebra which is
white on one side."
The computer scientist: "Oh no! A special case!"
are on a photo-safari in Africa. They drive out into the savannah in
their jeep, stop and scour the horizon with their binoculars.
The biologist: "Look! There's a herd of zebras! And there, in the
middle: a white zebra! It's fantastic! There are albino zebras! We can
publish this!"
The statistician: "It's not significant. We only know there's one white zebra."
The mathematician: "Actually, we know there exists a zebra which is
white on one side."
The computer scientist: "Oh no! A special case!"