I thought I better write this story down before we all forget about it!
A few days ago, in Statistics class, our professor was showing us how different types of data polled from our two sections, such as age, gender, shoe size and weight, could be used to determine each other. Some factors were more correlated while others were irrelevant and could be removed from the equation.
For instance, to predict someone’s height and weight, age would not be a good factor (seeing how our age range was narrow, and being older doesn’t necessarily make you much heavier), but shoe size would be better (because if you’re tall you tend to have a larger shoe size, and possibly weight more).
Along the way, questions were asked and we were quite engrossed in the data, because it was about our own class!
One Italian classmate looked intently at the screen and asked something like, “But how would I know if sex is a good factor?”
There was a split-second pause, then the whole class erupted in laughter!!!
Our classmate was a little embarassed as he didn’t mean it that way, but we all found it pretty funny. Needless to say we were in good spirits…
(Classmates reading this: If you recall the exact line used, please let me know!)
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