An engineer, a mathematician, a physicist a computer scientist and an economist walk into a restaurant and order dinner. Then the check comes.
Ben Orlin tells (and illustrates) this true-to-life fable at Math with Bad Drawings. It's just a shame that no statistician popped up in the story — let us know your suggestions of how a statistician might have handled things in the comments.
That's all for this week, but you can catch up on previous Because it's Friday posts here. Have a great weekend!
Well, from a statistical perspective, there's a rich realm of stochastic responsibility that is fair in expectation. Daniel Reeves has already written on this quite extensively, so I'll just refer to his piece:
http://messymatters.com/expectorant/
Posted by: David Lockhart | August 30, 2013 at 14:32