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in reply to Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl

And statistics show 100% of all smokers will die too. :)

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Re: Re: Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl
by Preceptor (Deacon) on Sep 19, 2002 at 13:38 UTC
    71.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
    --
    It's not pessimism if there is a worse option, it's not paranoia when they are and it's not cynicism when you're right.
      85% of people didn't know that.
      Every 13.5 seconds someone in america suffers a severe head injury. Boy, am I glad I'm not that guy!

          Every 13.5 seconds someone in america suffers a severe head injury. Boy, am I glad I'm not that guy!

        Are you sure you're not that guy? You know, if you were that guy, you wouldn't remember.

        Some of them are gals, though head injury is largely a guy thing.

        Did you know that having a head injury greatly increases your chances of having another head injury?

      And the other 34.52% are wrong...

      There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

Re: Re: Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Sep 19, 2002 at 14:10 UTC
    And fifteen of every dozen Americans have trouble with fractions.

    --
    tbone1
    As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

      Actually, there are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary notation, and those that don't.
        So why only three kinds of mathematician? Those who can add and those who can't?

        jdtoronto

Re: Re: Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 19, 2002 at 15:22 UTC

    Ah, yes!
    But what they don't want you to know is that 100% of non-smokers will die as well! ;)

      100% of all people who eat carrots die.
        In that case, I shall make sure not to eat any carrots. Then I should have a -100% chance of dying. :)