Inability to defer

[supergee]

Our long national nightmare of waiting for the Super Bowl is almost over. Once again, we have overwhelming evidence that two weeks before the big game runs almost everybody out of interesting things to say about it. One sign is when they bring out an animal who allegedly can pick the winner. This year it's an ape who has picked six straight, thus impressing the living shit out of innumerates who think it’s one in a million, rather than one in 64.

Yeah, I know, it's me. Childish impatience. I also think they should go back to having the game at 1PM, so there's less wait, and I don't have to stay up past my bedtime.

Comments

[johnpalmer]

Heh. But 1 in 64 is still enough to beat p<.05 so it's statistically significant :-).

(Yes, I am mocking the notion of statistical significance under the circumstances. But XKCD has already done it better. )