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To: Scythian

117% of all predictions will be mindless, straight-line extrapolations. After all, 87% of this year’s and 57% of last year’s were.


9 posted on 12/31/2008 9:39:08 AM PST by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: Dilbert56

I bet every one of my predictions in the original post come true this year.


13 posted on 12/31/2008 9:40:07 AM PST by Scythian
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To: Dilbert56

61% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


14 posted on 12/31/2008 9:40:07 AM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Dilbert56

10% of predictors are made of electrons/protons. The other 90% of them are made of morons.


18 posted on 12/31/2008 9:42:03 AM PST by lormand (...somewhere in Illinois, a village has lost it's marxist community organizer.)
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To: Dilbert56; tx_eggman
117% of all predictions will be mindless, straight-line extrapolations. After all, 87% of this year’s and 57% of last year’s were.

Statistician Blues
By Todd Snider


They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain
97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain
I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime
99 percent think with 3 percent 100 percent of the time

64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not
I don't know what you believe but I do know there's no doubt
I need another double shot of something 90 proof
I got too much to think about

Too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about

They say 92 percent of everything you learned in school was just bulls**t you'll never need
84 percent of everything you got you bought to satisfy your greed
Because 90 percent of the world's population links possessions to success
Even though 80 percent of the wealthiest 1 percent of the population
Drinks to an alarming excess
More money, more stress

It's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
Pick it now

84 percent of all statisticians truly hate their jobs
They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs
There's this little bank not far from here I've been watching now for a while
Lately all I can think about's how bad I wanna go out in style

And it's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
That's right
It's too much to think about
Amen
It's too much to think about
Mmm hmmm

64 posted on 12/31/2008 10:06:18 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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