A mathematician, physicist, and statistician all go hunting when they come across a deer. The mathematician first calculates for the mass of the round, the muzzle velocity, and drop rate then says “ok, give me the rifle.” He fires and misses by 3 feet to the left. “Miss!” exclaims the statistician.
The physicist takes the rifle and says, “you forgot to calculate for wind velocity!” He does some more calculations between 3 spheres and then says that he’s ready. He fires the rifle and misses by 3 feet to the right.
“We got him!” the statistician excitedly yells as the deer goes running off into the woods.
I wanna get this so bad but I don’t and I want to be socially accepted by peers so I won’t ask for an explanation
The mathematician misses three feet to the left and the physicist misses three feet to the right. If you take the average of those two, like in statistics, it’s right in the middle and would hit the deer.
Just in case, statistics have a lot of mechanisms just to avoid these average issues affecting your analysis, this is situation is much more “how to lie with numbers”. And yeah, ppl don’t like me.
Thank you, you rock 😆
In simplest terms, statisticians are stereotypically known for wanting to simplify curves. So, if you see a plot graph of data and notice a cloud of points that appear to angle in a certain direction, statisticians will sometimes draw a line from the first average point to the last average point and say that line represents the data. So the joke is that statisticians throw out the individual data and say the average represents the real world, so three left and three right equals and average of a direct hit.
For the physicist, they’re known for representing everything as spheres to simplify their math and create approximate calculations. This means that back-of-the-envelope calculations will get you close but won’t be precise.
Mathematicians are said to only calculate for one variable at a time, in this case, trajectory without accounting for wind or air resistance. Mathematicians also often joke about using “dots in space.”
The overall joke is that these are three incredibly intelligent people abusing the most boiled down versions of their fields and failing terribly because they refuse to experience the world in anything other than numbers and figures.
I hope you are now able to enjoy the joke more, although I imagine it’s now more tedious than enjoyable.
Wow no joke it was super nice of you to explain that to me 🤣 I’m still don’t follow 100% (my brain isn’t well suited for math) but I do find it funnier understanding it more!!
omg, how funny. I like that he drops some serious philosophical bombs in it, yet the paper is incoherent and just has a terrible writing style.
I read this long ago on reddit… it is SO much better with that narrator! And it was already gold! Perchance.
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Statistics are not magic though, and there is people waiting to complain if a weather prediction says 80%-chance and then it doesn’t happen.
In my experience this is because they confuse an 80% change of rain with 80% of the time it’s gonna rain.
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