2012-10-16
Original: 2012-10-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main comic):
A bald man wearing glasses and a tan suit with a blue tie holds a tablet/folder and speaks to another man (the President), shown in profile facing him.
Advisor: "GOOD NEWS, MISTER PRESIDENT. WE'VE CREATED A NEW BREED OF HOMO SAPIENS WHO ARE SO DUMB THEY WILL SKEW THE ARITHMETIC MEAN OF THE ENTIRE NATION!"
President: "HA! MY EDUCATIONAL GOAL IS OFFICIALLY MET!"
Below the panel: a rolled-up gray newspaper with the headline "75% OF CHILDREN NOW ABOVE AVERAGE IQ" and a small bell-curve-style graph plus columns of text.
Votey:
A bald man (the President) grins.
President: "THAT WAS WAY CHEAPER THAN POLICY CHANGES."
A bald man wearing glasses and a tan suit with a blue tie holds a tablet/folder and speaks to another man (the President), shown in profile facing him.
Advisor: "GOOD NEWS, MISTER PRESIDENT. WE'VE CREATED A NEW BREED OF HOMO SAPIENS WHO ARE SO DUMB THEY WILL SKEW THE ARITHMETIC MEAN OF THE ENTIRE NATION!"
President: "HA! MY EDUCATIONAL GOAL IS OFFICIALLY MET!"
Below the panel: a rolled-up gray newspaper with the headline "75% OF CHILDREN NOW ABOVE AVERAGE IQ" and a small bell-curve-style graph plus columns of text.
Votey:
A bald man (the President) grins.
President: "THAT WAS WAY CHEAPER THAN POLICY CHANGES."
Alt text
A bald advisor in a tan suit holding a tablet speaks to the President (shown in profile). The advisor says: "Good news, Mister President. We've created a new breed of Homo sapiens who are so dumb they will skew the arithmetic mean of the entire nation!" The President replies: "Ha! My educational goal is officially met!" Below them, a rolled newspaper bears the headline "75% of children now above average IQ" with a small bell-curve graph. The joke: instead of making children smarter, they made some so dumb that the average drops, so most children end up statistically "above average." Votey: the grinning President adds, "That was way cheaper than policy changes."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.