27772nd poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#9147

uh

motor oil

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#9148

football

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#9149

bbq

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#9150

not reading that because ive literally studied it but ill assume what you said was correct and insightful and cool

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#9151

Booooooooooo

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#9152

ewwwww

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#9153

aren’t you nominally on my team

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#9154

Men kicking balls around is not quite a topic I’d like to use to avoid the spread of the girlfluence

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#9155

slay

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#9156

Are solar cars mancentric if it’s related to engineering…

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#9157

Sulit you’re now officially nominally man because you’re interested in solar cars

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#9158

I’ve been called “basically a man” many times since coming to college

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#9159

engineers will do anything not to acknowledge women exist

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#9160

Hiii girl on the inside, handyman on the outside

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#9161

usually after men on the solar car team make degrading jokes about women

and then proceed to tell me I don’t count

uh

which is probably bad
and I don’t appreciate the jokes
but what can you do

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#9162

Garnier Ultimate Blends is fantastic shampoo & conditioner

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#9163

Also

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#9164

was looking at Wikipedia last night and got hit by (emphasis added):

The arithmetic mean, although a concept known to the Greeks, was not generalised to more than two values until the 16th century. The invention of the decimal system by Simon Stevin in 1585 seems likely to have facilitated these calculations. This method was first adopted in astronomy by Tycho Brahe who was attempting to reduce the errors in his estimates of the locations of various celestial bodies.

The idea of the median originated in Edward Wright’s book on navigation (Certaine Errors in Navigation) in 1599 in a section concerning the determination of location with a compass. Wright felt that this value was the most likely to be the correct value in a series of observations. The difference between the mean and the median was noticed in 1669 by Chistiaan Huygens in the context of using Graunt’s tables.

and like, the entire reason I was on that page in the first place was that I was pretty sure a lot of statistical concepts were More Recent Than People Expect, but my instinctive reaction was still “what do you MEAN the idea of taking the average of more than two numbers wasn’t around until the late fifteen hundreds”

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#9165

so that’s why aristotle was wrong

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#9166

(disclaimer: there are several reasons why aristotle was wrong)

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