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An engineer, a chemist and a statistician are staying in a hotel. The first night, a fire breaks out and wakes them up. The engineer gets up, grabs the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire. Later, they're all woken by another fire. The chemist thinks "the fire reaction requires oxygen", grabs a fire blanket and smothers the flames until they go out. Even later, the engineer and the chemist are woken by the statistician lighting a series of fires in the corner. "What are you doing?", they cry. Statistician replies - "Increasing the sample size"
(thanks to 4D Pie Charts blog)