Oh, my. Bacon currency would be so complicated. Of course, we'd spend more, but we'd also eat more. There really wouldn't be enough profit made anywhere. Imagine if you could put money in an egg sammich. "That'd be five whole bacon-dollars please, with ketchup and a little mayo on a roll. Coffee, light and sweet. To go." Breakfast would truly be the best meal of the day, well, before your arteries imploded.
The chances of winning per lottery number sold are not modified by the number of locations, so that 16,000 outlets bit is irrelevant. Each number sold on a lottery ticket has a fixed probability of winning. The chances of selling two winning tickets two weeks in a row is found by multiplying the store's sales volume times the chance of winning per number sold and then multiplying that product against itself.
(Tickets sold in week 1 * Odds) * (Tickets sold in week 2 * Odds)
@DahlELama: Bears? I've never eaten bear but I bet it could be a hot commodity if we spread the word.
P.S. So as someone not of the Jewish faith, I googled Kosher foods and was surprised to find lobsters and shellfish as non-Kosher!
I don't enjoy pork as much as many, but in pre-refrigeration and pre-banking times a pig was a great store of value (and scraps).
As B-SK notes below, what happens with porciculture now is an abomination from an ecological perspective. The same could be said of industrial chicken farms.
@Smitros: Oh, they certainly are. There was this entire gang of them that would roam my college's campus and wreak havoc on car tires and sit up in the trees and glare at you whenever you were leaving the library around twilight.
I suggested a turkey shootout for Thanksgiving (to give to the needy) but couldn't get enough votes in the student association.
@Conchie Birdie: there is nothing finer than faux...although some faux fur is made from live dogs in China so check carefully before purchasing.
P.S. while I'm at it: factory farmed hogs are ruining the world. NC alone is becoming one big toxic waste dump from the piggie run-off into the waterways.
@lamey007: Well, with the 134 pounds of buffalo I was able to bring back from my hunt (even tho I really shot around 450 pounds), I think we should def. ford the river.
Crap. I think I just got dysentery.
uhh, but assuming two jackpot opportunities a week, (mega millions and take five), once a store has sold one winning ticket, chances that they'll sell another one in the next 7 weeks are 1 in 1,142 I think.
Chances that a given store will sell two jackpot tickets in a period of 8 weeks are exactly 1 in a million, if I've remembered my stats correctly. Assuming 16 jackpots in an 8 week period and 16,000 outlets. Kind of a fun stat!
Sorry--got timed out wrestling with html during the first go. Here’s the address I was attempting to link for the New York Times article about President Obama's search for metrics to judge the effects of Operation Enduring Freedom:
I read this post yesterday and slept on it. I realized upon waking that the New York Times article of the same day about President ... neglected to mention Robert McNamara. That is painfully ironic.
Upon his recent passing, I purchased a used copy of Deborah Shapley's 615-page biography of the man (Promise and Power). I am well into this book, and I strongly urge its lessons to everyone (not just statisticians or ISTJs).
BL's one date with statistician:
Math Boy (geeky but v. cute and in that big hands/wide pelvis way that usually means something good is afoot) rambles on and on about what he does, drops mathy science, for about an hour until BL's eyes are about to roll.
BL: So what's the probability of your having a big cock, statistically (slurred) speaking?
Math Boy: That would be fifty-fifty. Here, let me improve those odds. Bartender!
That smart-looking lady in front of the blackboard who wrote that math is fun? She doesn't lie.
I was not aware that 125k is significantly more than the average math/econ/science phd from Stanford or a similar school makes exiting 5-7 years of intense study and thesis writing. If that's an incredible salary to be making when you are nearing 30, the very smart phd holders (who probably could have sold out and worked on wall street) are probably not in it for the money.
@rozoplatonic: I don't know any science PhDs making 125K right out of graduate school in the science industry. Please let know where you find these high paying jobs.
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That sounds like a croque, madame.
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(Tickets sold in week 1 * Odds) * (Tickets sold in week 2 * Odds)
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...shuffles away, mumbling something about damn anti-Semites...
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P.S. So as someone not of the Jewish faith, I googled Kosher foods and was surprised to find lobsters and shellfish as non-Kosher!
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How about deer, HamNo? Are deer a sound investment? Will anyone lend me money for a chunk of venison and some Kedem grape juice?
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Fatted calf?
I don't enjoy pork as much as many, but in pre-refrigeration and pre-banking times a pig was a great store of value (and scraps).
As B-SK notes below, what happens with porciculture now is an abomination from an ecological perspective. The same could be said of industrial chicken farms.
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Depends on how they're raised and slaughtered. Wild Turkey is a little too raw for me.
As for the bird of that name, I understand they're a lot craftier than they're domesticated cousins.
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I suggested a turkey shootout for Thanksgiving (to give to the needy) but couldn't get enough votes in the student association.
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P.S. while I'm at it: factory farmed hogs are ruining the world. NC alone is becoming one big toxic waste dump from the piggie run-off into the waterways.
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Crap. I think I just got dysentery.
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Chances that a given store will sell two jackpot tickets in a period of 8 weeks are exactly 1 in a million, if I've remembered my stats correctly. Assuming 16 jackpots in an 8 week period and 16,000 outlets. Kind of a fun stat!
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//www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/world/asia/07policy.html
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Upon his recent passing, I purchased a used copy of Deborah Shapley's 615-page biography of the man (Promise and Power). I am well into this book, and I strongly urge its lessons to everyone (not just statisticians or ISTJs).
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Math Boy (geeky but v. cute and in that big hands/wide pelvis way that usually means something good is afoot) rambles on and on about what he does, drops mathy science, for about an hour until BL's eyes are about to roll.
BL: So what's the probability of your having a big cock, statistically (slurred) speaking?
Math Boy: That would be fifty-fifty. Here, let me improve those odds. Bartender!
That smart-looking lady in front of the blackboard who wrote that math is fun? She doesn't lie.
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I'm trying to think of any sexy economists, and am drawing a complete blank.
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