Statistical Sleuths Gifts

Valley of Big Data

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

Joan Hickson

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

"Excuse me, Professor. I think I might have spotted a flaw in your theory!"

'The dog ate my homework -- I thought maybe you could X-ray him.'

Roentgen tries to figure out what he's discovered.

"I need to self isolate. . . but I thought I'd better come in and see you first!"

'85.4% of people use phony statistics to get their point across.'

'What an execrable day. I got drenched in a Wiki leak and buried in a document dump.'

'Of students surveyed, 64% prefer English and 32% prefer math. The fact that these numbers do not add up to 100 may help explain why.'

"Perkins! What have you gone and done now...??"

"This is where things started getting really weird."

Medical Library - Large books with really revolting photographs

"Essentially Wilkins proves things and Brenner disproves them."

Undercover Biophysicists

"According to stomach content analysis he'll be dead in half an hour."

Newton's Law and Order.

'Hey, it's that peeping Tom again, the one who has no respect for privacy.'

GM Crops Genie.

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

Galileo describes his discoveries to the church (and gets hit over the head by the bishop/pope with the telescope that he made the discoveries with).

"You call yourselves a demographic?"

The Animal Researcher Reports...'I've been watching this herd of cattle for seven years, and to be frank, I haven't seen them do anything yet!'

'She didn't notice it was a wolf and not her grandma?? Had grandma never heard of electrolysis??'

Schrodingers cat at the vets

"We're sure we've got the right numbers... Now we just need to work out what order to put them in!"

"The search for a new painkiller has been a real headache."

"Let me through... I’m an armchair detective!"

Professor Yomp is working overtime, trying to find a synthetic rhino horn.'

Genetically-Modified Foods: Are they safe?

"Light at the end of the tunnel!"

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

'Trying to steal secrets again, Dr. Figowitz?'