November 29, 2005

• You know now that I think about it, everything he says is true.
• If I were teaching a class on statistics, logic, or anything else remotely similar, I would start the class with a test making each student write out what was "wrong" with each one of those statements, with bonus points going towards people who could point out a real-world example of that tactic being used seriously. Nice link, Skrik. ))
• They're not too keen on you learning about DHMO either, and it's even more dangerous than bread.
• I especially like 6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis. It is clever and insidious.
• Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling. And yet most people will read this, think "boy some people sure are stupid," and go back to campaigning for more Amber Alerts and laws against talking on cell phones while driving.
• Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling. Well, thank Grod this only affects American bread eaters!
• Ironic that an article meant to expose statistical fallacies has one of it's own... Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests. Half will score below the median, but very rarely will half score below the average.
• For the unwary men out there, I should also note that certain females can have the effect of "...turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person." Evil creatures, they are.
• Good catch rocket88.
• They should note how similar the ingredients for bread are to the ingredients for beer. Innocent coincidence? I think not!
• I thought this was gonna be about Bread.
• I have it on excellent authority that not one single known pathogen can survive in beer. Weevils can live inside bread, for pete's sake. So could voles. Ditto mutant scorpions with fast-acting curare stingers. But not one of these has ever been found in beer. Now, one *could* theoretically find a dead mouse, as happened at the famous Elsinore Brewery, but one could, in extremis, eat that dead mouse, or take it back to the liquor store for a fresh case, ultimately leading to jobs at the brewery, occasional puke-breath, and the foiling of an evil brewmaster's plans at world domination. I'm just sayin'.
• Fes should know. He once got our dead battery goin' by mixin' bird feces and spit, cause there's like acids in it, eh?
• That *was* beauty.
• laws against talking on cell phones while driving Seriously, this is a pretty dim comment.
• Wolof, I think he/she was reffering to the fact that hands-free devices are no safer than regular cellphones, although they are inexplicably legal in states which ban talking while driving without them.
• or the fact that laws against reckless driving are already on the books. if you cause an accident and you were talking on the cellphone while driving (or eating, or doing your nails) you should be charged with reckless driving. no need no new law. AND--the city of Cincinnati flouridated their drinking water supply in 1873. Everyone who drank that water from 1873-1885 is now dead.
• I hate you fucking cell phone people.
• How about those people that have to turn their Support The Troops ribbon sideways, even though there's enough room on their vehicle to have it right-side up. I hate those people.
• Henry Miller on the staff of life.
• Nickdanger's mean. Oh, and this doesn't apply to croissants. They're not bread; they're pastry.
• *applauds Henry Miller*
• *applauds croissants*
• EVERYONE WHO READS THIS COMMENT WILL DIE
• Wolof, I think he/she was reffering to the fact that hands-free devices are no safer Ahh to be young (to MoFi) again...
• OMG!1!! R B8gls saf??
• Actually, bread can be dangerous.
• My doctor told me to stop eating bread today.
• I stopped eating PETA bread.
• Fuck all you bread eaters.
• Fish tick wins. HAHA
• What's with the thousands of giant fries coming to attack the poor kid in the BBC article? He's just sitting by that tree, minding his own damned business and eating Toxicrisps. I mean, doesn't the article prove well enough the Menace That Is Starch without showing a tidal wave of greenish chips ready to sweep a kid into its evil, greasy embrace?

• Ironic that an article meant to expose statistical fallacies has one of it's own... Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests. Half will score below the median, but very rarely will half score below the average.

  the article is correct in theory. standardized tests are designed to reflect a normal distribution, so the median = the mean. of course, whether standardized tests properly reflect a normal distribution is open to question.
• Half will score below the median, but very rarely will half score below the average. pedant time... "Average" can be defined as either the median or the mean.
• ...Or mean can be defined as NickDanger. As I said. Previously.
• Let's not forget the mode.
• in a recent survey of apple pie eaters, the option of pie with a scoop of ice cream was chosen by more repsondents than any other option.
• mmmmm, pie...