Comments on: Nerd alert

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:42:25 +0000

KB, the link was like that on Wikipedia. That’s why it fooled me.

By: kid bitzer

kid bitzer — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:00:34 +0000

well, you did cheat a bit by extending the underlining under the word “series”, as well.

if the underline had stopped at “time”, then the syntactic break might have been more evident, even to the stats-obsessed reader.

By: chuk

chuk — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:42:24 +0000

Oh god! After considerable cognitive dissonance—checking the post, rechecking the post, checking the wiki page, rechecking the wiki-page, rechecking the post…”No, this just looks like a run of the mill children’s book…Oooooooooooh!”—I see now that I am in the same boat as EH.

By: Twisted_Colour

Twisted_Colour — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:32:02 +0000

I was expecting “potatoes,” but that’s just me.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:05:04 +0000

JH … but on the way she met a quantity theorist.
EH … Pwned! I think you’re the automatic winner of this thread.

By: Eszter Hargittai

Eszter Hargittai — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:59:27 +0000

Even after I read “history” I still assumed this was about stats. Oops…

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:50:44 +0000

Ethel the aardvark went down to the river to do some regression analysis …