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A mathematician, a physicist, and a statistician go out on a duck hunt. They have only one gun. They come across some ducks, and the mathematician quickly calculates the distance, the velocity, the angle, etc. and shoots. Well, he misses by a foot to the LEFT!

They come across ducks again, and this time the physicist takes the gun. After calculating all the angles, flight paths, velocities, etc. the physicist also takes into consideration the gravity, air friction, and such things... and fires! Well, he misses by a foot to the RIGHT!

Now the time comes for a statistician. After averaging the previous attempts, the statistician jumps up and down, yelling, "We got'em! We got'em!"

(From Hamparsum Bozdogan page http://web.utk.edu/~bozdogan Thanks to Gregory Ivakhnenko)

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A Physicist, a Biologist, and a Statistician see two people enter a house, and then after some time, they see three people leave the house. The Physicist concludes, "My initial observation must have been incorrect." The Biologist concludes, "Clearly, the two reproduced..." The Statistician concludes, "Well, if one more person enters the house, then there will be no-one in the house!"

(thanks to Gary Ramseyer's gallery) ---

Did you hear about the statistician who had his head in an oven and his feet in a bucket of ice? When asked how he felt, he replied, "On the average I feel just fine." (thanks to Gary Ramseyer's gallery) --

An advanced society has figured how to package basic knowledge in pill form. A student, needing some learning, goes to the pharmacy and asks what kind of knowledge pills are available. The pharmacist says "Here's a pill for English literature." The student takes the pill and swallows it and has new knowledge about English literature!

"What else do you have?" asks the student. "Well, I have pills for art history, biology, and world history, "replies the pharmacist. The student asks for these, and swallows them and has new knowledge about those subjects!

Then the student asks, "Do you have a pill for statistics? "The pharmacist says "Wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a whopper of a pill that is about twice the size of a jawbreaker and plunks it on the counter. "I have to take that huge pill for statistics?" inquires the student.

The pharmacist understandingly nods his head and replies "Well, you know statistics always was a little hard to swallow."

(Thanks to Gary Ramseyer gallery)