A gambler hires a Mathematician, a Chemist, and a Physicist to help him devise a method to pick horses. After a few weeks work, they give their reports:Hope y'all have a healthy sense of humor...Mathematician: We don't know why horses win, but we can estimate their chances. I propose doing a multiple-regression computation with horse age, jockey, track condition, last race, and a few more things as independent variables. We should be able to rank horses as to their chances to win.
Chemist: The horse that's in the best physical condition should win. I propose to take hair clippings, urine samples, saliva samples, blood samples, before a race and determine which horse is in the best shape.
Physicist: Consider a spherical horse....