Friday, March 4, 2011

Rendition: superstistics

superstistics:

The use of prior evidence of one event to predict the outcome of another unrelated event - from the words superstitious and statistics.

Examples:
1. Toss a coin and get heads 100 times in a row and use superstistics to conclude that the next toss is more likely to be tails than heads.

2. A well known superstistics conclusion: "The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936." (snopes) 

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Rendition:Russian Toilette

Russian Toilette:

After sitting on the toilet to poop, you notice that there is less than one-quarter of a roll of toilet paper, and no spare in the bathroom. You decide to poop anyway, gambling on the fact you will have enough toilet paper to have a satifying wipe.

Example:
Husband: "Honey, I just played Russian Toilette, and lost"
Wife: "Sucks to be you. Try not to bite your fingernails" 
Yes its live traced...Doing these on the quick and dirty....meeh