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Yeah, well, George Carlin was a comedian, not a statistician... The exact quote, I believe, is:
"Think of how smart the average person is, and then realize that half of them are dumber than him."
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Well, I'm not a statistician either, I'm a mathematician.
I got into a lot of trouble once for referring to the "human factors" department as "ship B". I've always been in ship C.
Ian Shlasko wrote: Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Earl Truss wrote: I got into a lot of trouble once for referring to the "human factors" department as "ship B".
Do you really mean to say that the HR people in your company are literate?!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Do you really mean to say that the HR people in your company are literate?!
Somebody needs to catch up on their HHG2G 
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Somebody needs to catch up on their HHG2G
That's precisely my point; they actually read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and know what ark B was full of.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think someone complained to our manager and then had to explain why they were offended.
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Thank you.
People can take it up with him. I wouldn't expect a timely response, however.
TTFN - Kent
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It's not quite as simple as that.
Average[^]
Quote: In colloquial language, an average is the sum of a list of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the list. In mathematics and statistics, this would be called the arithmetic mean. However, the word average may also refer to the median, mode, or other central or typical value. In statistics, these are all known as measures of central tendency.
However, we do usually mean the first and in that context you are right.
Kevin
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Best Buy. Their online store caused my family's bank account to be locked out twice, both times because of thousands of requests for authorization within one minute. This seems to have been a problem for at least two months, and nothing has been done about it.
I found lots of complaints about the company related to this.
Hell, I may just stop going to Best Buy completely!
And the second incident was TWENTY FOUR #*$&%($) HOURS AFTER I CANCELED THE [REDACTED] ORDER AND GOT A *$&*#(@* CONFIRMATION EMAIL!
SCREW YOU, BEST BUY!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think you're doing it wrong.
Best Buy is where you go to check-out the picture quality on the new 4K TV or sound quality of the new Sony surround sound reciever.
Amazon is where you actually place the order online!  
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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That's where I went after the fiasco. Only Amazon from now on.
The price was ~$600 less than Best Buy's price. And BB was having a sale!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: The price was ~$600 less than Best Buy's price. And BB was having a sale!
It's amazing how cheap your prices can be when your company doesn't pay any tax.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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IYDMA, where are you living? To cut shipping costs Amazon's largely given up on parking its warehouses in a few low tax flyover states and is building them close to major cities and charging sales tax in 30 states[^] as a result. Oddly enough, IIRC Amazon's changed from opposing an internet sales tax to advocating for it. A more cynical person might suspect they've decided that if they have to suffer the administrative burden of collecting it; so should all of their competitors.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: And BB was having a sale!
No, they weren't. Best Buy only says it's a sale. It's always their normal prices: MSRP.
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You're missing the rant icon!
I recently got a BestBuy.Com fraudulent charge on my credit card. Not a major problem. The bank reversed the charge and issued me with a new card (different number). I wonder what is going on at BB? I have never bought from them, and all my on-line purchases go through Amazon.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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My guess is IT Dept. Idiocy coupled with Managerial Incompetency and Corporate Stupidity.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Is becoming a vegetarian a huge missed steak?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is sooo easy to pork fun at veterinarians.
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: veterinarians.
Did you mean Vegetarians? As what you have makes no sense in the context of the original post.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Auto correct
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AKA Autoincorrect and Autocowreck
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Humans are "omnivorous".
How does an omnivore become a herbivore?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ask a Giant Panda. If it can stop chewing bamboo for long enough to answer...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A bit off topic, but judging by our teeth, we should be eating more vegetables than meat. Yet, most people never do that. And then they wonder why they have health problems. To eat our meat we have to soften it and use utensils otherwise it's difficult for the body to digest. And we call this natural?
Clickety[^]
I'll always eat meat, but I wish more people would remember we're meant to eat veggies more than anything else. And yet, nobody does.
Jeremy Falcon
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