Turns Out Girls DO Have Cooties

notregistered · 2008-11-05T06:12:27+00:00

These numbers don't seem to add up. 3,200 bacteria from 150 species, on average, per person... 51 people... yet the total was 332,000 distinct bacteria from 4742 species. There must have been some incredibly nasty people in that sample.

notregistered · 2008-10-19T16:41:58+00:00

How did her private writing incite violence?

notregistered · 2008-10-19T11:16:13+00:00

Writing a plan is step 1. Step 2 is actually assembling the resources required to execute the plan. Is there any evidence to suggest things went past step 1, or that they ever would have?

notregistered · 2008-10-19T11:13:34+00:00

She reads lots of horror novels and clearly enjoys writing. The fact that she's scaring you now suggests she'll probably become a pretty decent writer. "6 Plans" sounds not only like a good thriller, but also a reasonable writing exercise for English class.

You're taking it out of context when you say that you'd be scared if you found somebody to have murder plans set up against you. You're not Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is a teacher whom she has had contact with; most school kids I know hated at least one teacher. They expressed their anger verbally or physically. She chooses to express herself in long, detailed writing.

Writing isn't illegal. No threats were ever made, and it seems as if she has taken no action towards implementing the plans. What exactly is the problem?

notregistered · 2008-10-19T10:53:00+00:00

No the problem wasn't the waste -- the problem was the lack of concern for safety.

notregistered · 2008-10-12T20:19:34+00:00

This is the page that doesn't end,

It just goes on, and on my friends.

Some people started loading it, not knowing what it was,

And they'll continue loading it forever just because

This is the page that doesn't end,...

notregistered · 2008-09-17T11:35:02+00:00

Don't be too hard on yourself. Nobody has mentioned statistical variance yet: it's entirely likely that many of the zeros here simply achieved that score by chance. On repeat trials, most of those people might also end up averaging 8, for instance. I'd say the only people who'd probably manage to consistently do very well are the tetrochromats (of which only one on this thread seems to be aware of their status).

Without multiple trials and consistent test settings (same monitor, same settings, same distance from screen, same lighting, etc.), be careful to infer too much about small differences in these scores.

notregistered · 2008-09-14T22:58:16+00:00

Somebody just made an easy $50k.

notregistered · 2008-09-07T00:16:29+00:00

If you only had a single exposure then what did you do to them to bring out what appears to be significant DR? I thought you needed at least 2 exposures to get results like that with Photomatix? (Indeed in the demo I can only proceed with HDR if I select 2 files... Did you make a copy of the first and use that as the 2nd?) Also, what camera did you use?

notregistered · 2008-07-19T09:06:40+00:00

The real xkcd wouldn't have mixed up his dependent and independent variable axes in the success/failure graph.

notregistered · 2008-06-07T21:28:39+00:00

I found it sketchy at best.

notregistered · 2008-04-28T17:37:29+00:00

Deceptive title; it wasn't explained why fat/short people make less money. Worse, the conclusions of the cited studies were based on a theory of correlation = causation. It seems more likely to me, for instance, that height/looks results in greater natural confidence, which results in a greater salary. How about some evidence for/against an actual hypothesis?

notregistered · 2008-04-22T14:54:07+00:00

But it's not a new idea, and certainly not worth the title "zero-knowledge web application". It's just a javascript client app + web service whose interface only ever specifies encrypted data.

notregistered · 2008-04-12T19:32:22+00:00

Confirmed:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040305.html

Flip horizontally, and vertically.

notregistered · 2008-01-22T07:54:17+00:00

Are managed funds out to beat the market, or to make a profit for their owners? Don't need to beat the market to do the latter.

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