Had a stastics class where the instructor tried to prove that 2+2=5 but no one caught him since he went so fast and used 2 blackboards, erasing the first one to finish the problem thereby erasing where he had conned us!
He also stated on the first day of class that anyone writing or uttering the word stastics in the class would automaticly fail and that the class was to be known as how to lie with figures and how to make figures lie.
You know... there are three kinds of lies:
But seriously, university level stats are nothing to joke about... they can be confusing, and leading people into confusing territory is a good way to lie to them. Statistics do not really lie...
I had a discreet mathematics professor that proved to us that he was god. I forget how he did it; I remember being unimpressed and stuck to the notion that there is only one God and he wasn't it.
BTW, I don't mean to imply that the professor was discreet, only that the math was discreet and that he was the professor of such.
"how to lie with figures and how to make figures lie"
He's probably employed by the Congressional Budget Office by now.